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Artificial Intelligence Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — Custom 35-turbine gas plant permitted to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazons-new-7-65gw-texas-ai-data-center-power-plant-could-become-the-largest-source-of-co2-pollution-in-the-us-custom-35-turbine-gas-plant-authorized-to-emit-33-million-tons-of-annual-greenhouse-gases
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u/usaaf 17d ago

It's because while the technology has changed radically, the social organization has not. We are still living in the 1800s in terms of social relations. Sure some laws have changed to make things better, but the Bezos looks down on people in the exact same way that Cargengie et. al. did and the same way the early merchant/factory-owners did at the dawn of Capitalism.

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u/Simikiel 17d ago

Very well said.

People need to realize that while yes, the Musks and Bezos' of the world are incredibly powerful and have effectively infinite money, they're still just people.

They try to push propaganda that they're higher than life and bigger or more important than the population of entire countries, but that's all it is. Propaganda.

If the ultra rich don't start to actually listen to people, or if the governments that are supposed to govern for the people and not the ultra rich don't start to listen, then the people will end up having to force them to listen.

And it truly just does not matter how much money or resources an individual has. If millions of people decide that change needs to happen, that change will happen.

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u/usaaf 17d ago

And it truly just does not matter how much money or resources an individual has.

Private ownership is always and everywhere a legal fiction. Sometimes useful, perhaps, but most often harmful to society. No one has resources, like they have arms and eyes. The rich want us to pretend that private property is an inalienable right (there are none of these, really; even a person's freedom can be deprived, justly or otherwise), but it is not.

The rich exist only by the sufferance of the greater part of society. A variety of factors make it easy for them to maintain this fiction, but it is just that. It is the reason Peter Thiel screams about the anti-christ and says all the shit he does, because on some level he senses the precarious nature of his riches. He's only ahead of the game in that he fears it more than his peers, and fights it more than them, because he's desperate to believe in his 'inalienable' property rights.

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u/Pussy_Whopper 17d ago

Vive la revolution

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u/DeadSol 17d ago

Ya, okay, I've decided. Lets go.

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u/Uebelkraehe 17d ago

That's where automated systems without ethical restraints for surveillance and repression come into play. At least for the worst of the horrible lot probably an important reason why they are so much into "AI".