Meta: “We’re getting into VR, it’s the next big thing.”

VR Market Crashes

Meta: “Well, no sweat, we can just pivot to NFTs”

NFT Market Crashes

Meta: “Shit, damn. Okay, we can just migrate all our efforts to AI. That’s booming right now.”

AI Market Tilts Alarmingly

Meta: “Fuck! Fuck! We should… uh… Fossil Fuels! We should do Fossil Fuels! That’s always a safe bet.”

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 you read Marky Marks entire strategy, are you psychic?! Guess we all know how this will end up then: lemmy.world/post/48573158

The fossil fuels is BECAUSE of the LLM datacenters.

Why were they even considered a part of it?

Not like Meta did anything to help the planet.

They probably threw a lot of cash at someone to help them look more eco friendly.

A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK