Quick timeline…
- 2022: ChatGPT launches, and presumably, AI companies would have already been forecasting as to their energy needs over the next 5-10 years
- 2024-2025: AI companies pour money and support into DJT leaving many of us perplexed given Silicon Valley’s history of being left-leaning.
- 2025: DJT takes office, promptly eviscerates EPA and regulators rit large
- 2026: Data centers run amok
Guess we now know why…
2024-2025: AI companies pour money and support into DJT leaving many of us perplexed given Silicon Valley’s history of being left-leaning.
Curtis Yarvin has been writing about his ideas since at least 2009, when I first heard of him and his “Dark Enlightement.” He’s the “philsophical” underpinning of Silicon Valley’s actual values and it was clear long, long before 2024.
He has the ear of people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and more.
From Wikipedia:
Yarvin’s ideas were influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and prominent investors like Thiel have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Journalist Jason Wilson noted that Yarvin had “a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration”. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken in approval of Yarvin. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance also praised Yarvin in 2021, and said, drawing from his 2012 “Retire All Government Employees” talk, that “what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
The left-leaning part of Silicon Valley is the countless technicians, programmers and developers employed there, not the upper management.
Even in San Francisco and Berkeley, the C-Suite are strictly FOX News Republicans.
We as humans allowing this shit to go down is crazy to me.
The problem is the top is captured and has been for a very long time. The difference now is it’s mask-off and has lost the capacity to pretend to be public serving.
As the history of labor has shown us, it is very hard to organize bottom-up without leadership getting compromised or killed.
True. Sad. But since I am a fairly religious person, all points to me that we are heading to the finish line with this.
No one needs to organize anything. Three dozen people could solve this problem without ever communicating with each other. Most of them would likely be in prison for life or dead afterwards but people give up their lives for way dumber reasons every day.
Of course, I’m included in the category of people not doing this, but that doesn’t change the simple truth of what I’m saying.
Maybe a self driving Tesla will smash into the data center
I don’t think you understand how big these data centers are. They are the size of entire cities. A Tesla crash would have the effect of a single car crash in Manhattan.
If the battery cooks off inside the data center, it will do some damage. The amount of water that will be required to put it out will do even more damage.
How many teslas can we get to that location is the real question
Better to hit the substation supplying it.
Substations are full of oil-cooled power transformers.
Oil-cooled power transformers are large, obvious targets that can be permanently disabled by a single hit from a decently powerful rifle, even at great distance (all you have to do is punch a hole in it and let the oil leak out so it overheats), and they’re expensive and time-consuming to replace.
Just saying…
I hear there’s thousands of Cybertrucks just sitting around. Seems like a good use for them.
Besides, you just have to hit the important bits. Power, Network, Cooling.
Someone needs to hack every Tesla and drive them into the nearest data centre.
Steal the equipment and burn them down
