I kid you not, yesterday while reading about the ai bubble and the datacenters boom i was thinking maybe this is THE filter.
Not a nuclear winter, not the angry alien or the big scary asteroid.
Just a fucking chatbot wasting all the water and power.
We truly live in a boring dystopia.
If anything, it’s climate change and failing systems due to late-stage capitalism, followed by some form of fascism or other authoritarian system, aided by AI to stay in power.
Electricity use from AI data centers on a global scale isn’t impactful enough to make that much of a difference, it’s more of a local issue, at least at the current rate. Water use is entirely negligible outside of the surrounding area, animal agriculture uses more than a thousand times as much as all data centers combined.
A tragedy has befallen humanity.
We’ve created the great filter that explains the Fermi paradox.
I kid you not, yesterday while reading about the ai bubble and the datacenters boom i was thinking maybe this is THE filter.
Not a nuclear winter, not the angry alien or the big scary asteroid. Just a fucking chatbot wasting all the water and power. We truly live in a boring dystopia.
If anything, it’s climate change and failing systems due to late-stage capitalism, followed by some form of fascism or other authoritarian system, aided by AI to stay in power.
Electricity use from AI data centers on a global scale isn’t impactful enough to make that much of a difference, it’s more of a local issue, at least at the current rate. Water use is entirely negligible outside of the surrounding area, animal agriculture uses more than a thousand times as much as all data centers combined.
*arsehole tech bros have created