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One of the stories of the year is the tremendously fast growing demand for electricity due to the insanely fast development of data centers for the whole AI Era of Wonder. In regions around the country, electricity prices are spiking because giant data centers need so much electricity to power Big Tech’s AI dreams.
Billions of dollars are being spent every month on AI tools and constant neural net processing. But it’s always got to be more, more, more. Yes, AI is apparently being used to more quickly and accurately identify health issues (or so I hear). Yes, it is being used to improve transportation and model climate change scenarios. That’s great, but we don’t all need AI all the time for everything … do we?
That’s the idea. And it’s an idea now being pushed by SpaceX (yes, SpaceX).
