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AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-6-trillion-by-2031-to-justify-data-centres/Replying to @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
So there will be trillions spent on land and energy wasting data centers to get a dressed up ELIZA that will not solve a single world problem (like hunger, homelessness, poverty, ecological collapse). Simply great! Why not end capitalism right now? It is the only reasonable path at this point.
Replying to @uszo165@futurology.today
Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago why the New Zealand Green Party’s answer to all of our problems seemed to be taxes on rich people and big corporations. I said that it was because 40 years of neoliberalism had given us an economy that balanced a rise for the 1% with a fall for the 99%, and we should start trying to address that gently and legally before the 99% remember that a guillotine is 18th Century technology and can be easily constructed in a garage.
The end of capitalism isn’t too far off, the way things are going. And it’s going to be messy as hell.