OpenAI announces investment project worth 500 billion
linky (known as griftgate lmao)
At current prices of money, this project has to return 20 billion in profit, and likely operate on 50 billion revenue at least to cover the energy costs
What are these hundreds of thousands of jobs? I swear the only reason capitalists are investing in AI is so they can try to get rid of workers
Oh duh to build the infrastructure. Can't wait for the only jobs in the future to be back breaking labour to build AI infrastructure while the Earth burns
Lmao oh man the AI crash is going to hit the west haaaaard
Softbank guarantees success, what are you talking about
SoftBank guarantees citizenship!
don't worry, they'll make every other country besides the US get rid of the remains of their healthcare system that they didn't finish off after '08.
the re-industrialization of the United States
oh wait, you're serious. let me laugh even harder
re-aindustrialization
Doesn't the average data center require like, 4 employees?
I think there is a possible outcome where the Internet and all connected devices become so saturated with AI bullshit that we just go back to talking to each other
It's already happening. Many of my friends have logged off/deleted accounts and are doing more IRL social things. I've loaded my schedule up with in-person events and hang out with people as often as I can. This is the only place on the internet (aside from
sites) that is worth looking at.Hell yeah
(pls no)
How the fuck are you going to re-industrialize by making the internet full of shit?
the good news is the US has been de-industrialized for so long people don't actually know what an industrialized economy is supposed to look like
SEIG HAL told us to water the crops with Brawno.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
hundreds of thousands of jobs
Eat my whole ass.
It’s so that those of us who sell labor have no labor to sell.
The jobs openings will be in the rare-earth and coal mines needed to run the data centers. And they need to be supplied with pick-axes and gruel.
Grist for the mill, comrade. That is our future, and our past.
Fiber internet pls
:doomer:
I'm trying my best
I'm so tired of all of this
re industrialise the economy by doing more software development
This sucks so much lol I know some of you are hoping for a crash, but the fed won’t let this fail, calling it
fed backstopping heat machine turning electricity into scam phone calls is also funny outcome
Apparently fossil fuel subsidies weren't enough, they need to directly fund the "burn down trees for no reason" machine as well.
I'm beginning to think that "flipping" the geopolitical/economic board via rampant acceleration of climate change is the US's only real plan for re-asserting hegemony.
Fossil fuel industry expansion, refusal to adhere to Paris Agreement Accords, and now data-centers being plastered across the world burning electricity to enshittify the internet coupled with China going hard on developing renewables and harnessing sustainable energy to me signals that both nations know that there is no cooperation with the West on reduction of emissions, etc.
There is no plan, there is just profits and stock evaluations (in this case, nvidia gimme), and grift. 60 year old dipshits are impressed by chat gpt talking cause that's what they do for work, they immediately think they have solved labor. kissinger invested in theranos as a reminder. These are not smart people, these are incredibly rich people who can warp society with pocket change
60 year old dipshits are impressed by chat gpt talking cause that's what they do for work, they immediately think they have solved labor
I'm sorry, I know this is a popular line of thinking around here, but this is off base.
What's actually happening is that humanity may very well have stumbled into discovering machine reasoning on a level that we haven't even realized yet.
The SOTA in this field as of a couple days ago is a Chinese open source project called Deepseek that just upended the entire industry and pantsed Sam Altman and Silicon Valley in front of the world. They're giving away the secret to their massively efficient results that are besting every benchmark, and have cracked a breakthrough unsupervised learning technique that is allowing these models to demonstrate powerful reasoning capabilities. This stuff isn't Google's botched AI telling you to smoke while pregnant, this is post-graduate mathematics.
This has been great for a couple reasons: 1. we get a lot more performance for less cost and power usage which is seriously bloomer news, and 2. it's been hilarious watching western chauvinists melt down over this massive flex out of China.
Read a good synopsis of the paper that just dropped if you're still thinking it's all a grift. I also hate a lot of the practitioners of this stuff as well as the additional strain on the grid and climate, but I'm telling you folks, this tech is legit and currently improving at an alarming rate!
kind of a shit plan when it's going to decimate the already crumbling US infrastructure whilst making currently habitable areas of the US no longer habitable. As opposed to Russia, which climate change has the effect of making massive parts of it's landmass more tolerable to human habitation.
Stargate Project is such an insanely bad name for "building some datacentres". Could rich assholes stop claiming legal monopoly over the coolest words for their extremely uncool wastes of time and resources? If your project has nothing to do with gates between stars, then a just government should step in and tell you this ain't right.
It's to spy on us and autoflag every aspect of our lives like some minority report thingy isn't it?
Edit :
Can we implode it by gettjng the
to cry that U.A.E. investment into this is "Foreign Influence" affecting "National Security" and because they aren't it's DEI?Larry would never do or imply something like that
That could be part of it but honestly I just think they're gonna piss away money on pie in the sky "AGI" projects that will never quite pan out.
I think that would be more like "i robot" or "enemy of the state". Minority report would be if they use it to PREDICT what you are going to do, and arrest you on that... which would be the v2 system.
They see AI as the next labourer. By achieving AI they seek to achieve something that will improve itself. And by improving itself, rapidly be capable of creating and improving new and existing products and systems. They imagine it creating the robot labour necessary for all things. They imagine it creating technology we can't even understand right now.
Their biggest fear is China achieving this before them.
Heck yea burn all that capital in a big pit, that's gonna bring the growth back!
This feels like another "Space Race" to drain resources of all nations. This time around, it will lead to the Internet becoming exactly that place, cyberpunk books foreshadowed it to be.
I am betting that they will make a shit ton on stocks, but the amount of actual infrastructure built is only a third of what is needed to make sure the project is successful.
of course we're going down the stupidest fucking route possible god i hate this country
Softbank lol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/tech/elon-musk-trump-stargate-openai/index.html
Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, “First Buddy” Elon Musk tried to tear it down.
“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”
The companies involved in Stargate have not publicly disclosed how they will contribute the funds, but they don’t necessarily need the money in the bank to support it — they could raise debt or sign on other equity investors.
Altman replied directly to Musk’s claim on X, writing “wrong, as you surely know. want to come visit the first site already under way? this is great for the country. i realize what is great for the country isn’t always what’s optimal for your companies, but in your new role i hope you’ll mostly put (America) first.”
Softbank - Japan! A freaking DEI investor!
/sOh gods I despise the edgy names the edgy grifters give all their edgy bs finance grift commodities.
Ooh look at me, it is I, the Oracle!
"Space Odyssey" would have been a better name, IMO. Why sully the Stargate franchise when there are so many manic-ai ones already?