5mo ago

BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations

finance.yahoo.com BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments

(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up on one of the largest efforts to date to bankroll the build-out of data warehouses and energy infrastructure behind the boom in artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergCalifornia’s Anti-Speeding Bill Can Be a Traffic Safety Bre...

investors include Saudi Arabia, the country whose wealth rests on fossil fuels

now you might wonder if this initiative will lack a certain greenness

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But hey, your car is killing the planet. Better get a bicycle or an electric car.
- I have a bicycle, and if I see Bill Gates I'm going to throw it at him.

That is an absolutely deranged amount of money.
If the AI grifto-sphere were a supergiant star that has wandered off of the main sequence, its core is just now finishing up the oxygen and starting in on the silicon.
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/elements/imagine/05.html

Feels like the overlap of "people who love ai" and "people who put echos around Blackrock" might make for some really pathetic pissing and moaning.

This is the kind of thing that makes me feel paranoid. Oh, you want lots of power stations? For AI?

Yay. More AI.

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