The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[diabhoil@social.tchncs.de]

@HennaVirkkunen
How much will the energy prices go up? And who is going to pay the increase?

Let me answer it myself: we are going to pay for it and we won't have any benefits from this AI garbage.

[chapter1@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I'm sure there's nothing to convince you that this a mistake, but I'll say it anyway: This is absolute madness. The continent is on fire, energy prices are rising, drought everywhere and you believe it is a good thing to spend billions to make it even worse? I'd suggest you wake up, but I know you won't...

[leeloo@c.im]

@HennaVirkkunen
May I suggest a cheaper option? Invest in VW diesel gigafactories. It will have the same climate effects, and we already have the technology, where as with AI we would be starting from scratch unless we end up buying American or Chinese, missing the point of digital sovereignty.

And the result may be useful (if we can still find diesel) in the post AI collapse Mad Max style climate hellscape you seem to be going all in on.

[sustainable2050@mastodon.energy]

@HennaVirkkunen I don't want Europe to become an AI continent.

[ad_pt@c.im]

@HennaVirkkunen look i'm all about EU data sovereignty in the face of US cloud monopolies, but for fuck's sake, read the room. €30B could be better spent on more immediate problems, not having a bullshit machine produce more bullshit.

[bchmiel74@social.vivaldi.net]

@HennaVirkkunen One can only hope EU beaurocracy will slow this project enough for you (and all) to see this is madness.

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen And this is supposed to be--a GOOD thing?

[willi@hachyderm.io]

@HennaVirkkunen i hope they are all fossil fuel powered, else it would be only half as fun,

[stevecut@mstdn.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

This is madness. Do not do this!

If you really feel you must address AI, just wait until the collapse, and then pick up anything useful that may remain for virtually nothing

[quincy@chaos.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

Because what you're saying is "we don't need you anymore, we've got those machines that always say 'yes'"

[frank@moessingen.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Great, faster to extinction!

[astrodisastro@scicomm.xyz]

@HennaVirkkunen
We already are at 36⁰C today. Some areas of my region have less than one week of water left for irrigation. Other areas of my country are on fire. Other areas of the EU are on fire. But no, let's become the genAI Continent...

[abbuus@mastodon.nl]

@HennaVirkkunen What a waste of tax-money and an environmental hazard.

[marion_grau@climatejustice.social]

@HennaVirkkunen what the fuck, people. Stop this shit, people and species are dying. There is no upside to this other than for people without a conscience.

[helene@piaille.fr]

@diabhoil @HennaVirkkunen only problems with energy and water needs, thank you for the planet !

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@HennaVirkkunen Aren't there more urgent things to use that money for? Like the climate catastrophe in central Europe for example?

[helene@piaille.fr]

@mxfraud @HennaVirkkunen absolutely !

[rea@masto.ai]

@HennaVirkkunen It's a milestone for NVIDIA, not for the EU. Sad to see this. We don't need gigafactories we need climate preservation efforts

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@HennaVirkkunen seriously, right in the middle of the worst heatwaves SO FAR, with an upcoming even bleaker future, with half of Europe LITERALLY ON FIRE, the EU is going to donate billions to some of most climate-impacting and useless industries? Where did any of you get the idea that that was a smart thing to do?

How about you invest that money into gaining independence from the oil industry, given how impactful that has been already even in purely financial terms?

https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/30/clean-energy-saved-eu-51-billion-in-2025-by-cutting-fossil-fuel-imports-as-solar-leads-the

[carstenraddatz@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen €30bn, that is like, 1.5 bleeding edge gigafabs. One and a half.

Good start, but as an old man on Taiwan has said "too little, too late".