...something I have written about extensively, once France starts to bring its new Gigawatt AI datacentres online ( 15 planned according to Macron Bonaparte) no more ability to be net exporter of power to Germany and UK ( France only has 60 Gigawatt generating capacity and uses >50 itself) . though I do believe France has no water for the cooling so the one in Marseille will probably be the first and last. If USA is serious about forcing EU to stop buying Russian gas, then Germany has no hope of generating any power for AI unless it re- opens Nuclear plants itself instead of kidding itself it doesn't use Nuclear now. UK doesn't have any hope of either generating enough core power ( part time renewables cannot be used for datacentres) nor finding water supply for cooling ( especially with water companies criminally under invested and in special measures already , seeking bailouts) ...all of which means that unless a way is identified to make the current models 100x less resource intensive then its going nowhere fast. The secondary problem is that even the tech giants are finding it very hard to monetize these systems - the painful truth is that although folks like the automation and time/resource saving potential of AI, they aren't prepared to pay significant sums to use it. This will not, however, dissuade governments from using it for mass surveillance, oppression of anyone that doesn't vote for them and a whole host of scary military applications - better buy shares in Palantir then.
And corporations are more than happy to profit handsomely from said oppression. Interesting reporting on big tech's selling of Ai for adaptive policing in China despite the government forbidding it
Yes indeed, no doubt that anyone preferring vintage steel retro bicycles rather than Chinese official manufacture pressed carbon cereal boxes, is clearly subversive, dangerous and should be assigned a score of 100 and closely.monitored.
