The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[lettosprey@tech.lgbt]

@HennaVirkkunen I am hoping this is some attempt of sarcasm / irony / joke that I am missing, if so, please make it a bit more clear.

"unlocking more than €30 billion in investment."

For what?

From where?

For what purpose?

Where shall the resources be taken from?

We have laws to reduce the energy use on headlights on cars, because we need to conserve energy.

But 7 "AI data centers" is ok?

Who would want to invest in projects that have no viable way to make money?

Apart from the circular investments between the players in the AI circus turning this into an unsustainable bubble that must burst soon.

Unsustainable capitalism isn't ok, just because it is in Europe.

Politicians need to understand the practical implications of this. Not just fancy words by corporations eager to squeeze more money out of EU.

[tkissing@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Nobody needs that. Europe is literally on fire right now and you want to build more shit that uses water and pumps CO2 into the atmosphere. What is wrong with you?

[dch@bsd.network]

@HennaVirkkunen and what about our climate? Have you lost the plot? Priorities.

[counterpillow@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen imagine how much good you could do with 30 billion euros, but you're just gonna give it to Jensen Huang

[ianto_jones@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen this a remarkably tone-deaf proposal. You don't increase technological sovereignty by spending $30b on a rickety, unreliable, unproven bandwagon. Following the lead of the ogreish country screwing you over by building these monstrosities yourself that will damage the environment and harm your citizens is, let's say, a peculiar move.

Signed,

A Miserable US Citizen Going Through It

[paul@misskey.ellidaf.ru]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu Интересно быть политиком. Тем, кто считает ваше решение правильным и само- собой разумеющимся молчат. А недовольные кричат под окнами.
А ведь ответственность именно на вас.
Как вы живете с этим?

[kwyxz@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen do you have stupider ideas or is this the best you could come up with?

[ellouis@piaille.fr]

@HennaVirkkunen What a terrible idea!

[delltar@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@HennaVirkkunen Europe’s digital sovereignty effort is so far *abysmal* and instead of actually doing anything we will build useless data centres for something everyone knows is a bubble. We need full stack cloud services for crying out loud! So that we don’t have to host our essential services in the US. We need DNS, we need right to repair, we need email services, we need opensource public code, we need boring things, not shiny water guzzlers.

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @david_chisnall @HennaVirkkunen

Alpha fold was shut down yesterday. LLMs are literally sucking the finding and talent out of machine learning systems that are actually beneficial to society.

https://www.ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33?syn-25a6b1a6=1

(Non pay walled article about it: https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/google-disbands-nobel-winning-alphafold-team-to-focus-on-gemini-ai/story )

[anantagd@ieji.de]

@HennaVirkkunen The time is not far off when enraged local populations will burn every AI data center to the ground.

[sonjdol@ohai.social]

@HennaVirkkunen have you heard how loud these are? How much money will you pay to anybody living beside these catastrophic buildings?

[purple@tech.lgbt]

@HennaVirkkunen Elon Musk is an existential threat.

Why are you supporting him?

[tyil@fedi.tyil.nl]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu The EU oligarchy boasting about how out of touch they are with their citizens. Just another day ending in y for them.

[loupdescimes@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen vous êtes de sinistres abrutis. Les ressources en eau diminuent, les data centers en consomment, créés du réchauffement par surconsommation d'énergie et vous êtes fiers de çà ? FUCK YOU !!

[dwarf@borg.social]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu hi Henna, thanks for this post, but the subject at hand is terrifying.

Apparently there's 30 billion euro left over that can be invested in the housing crisis many countries have right now, but instead it is being used to create power-hungry, water-hungry datacenters for the purpose of... mass-scale copyright infringement and making knowledge a commodity to be sold.

Does that sound right to you? I know I wouldn't want to be responsible for doing this much damage to the world and the people trying to live in it.

Sovereignty yes, but definitely not at cost!

[lareinezenobie@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen No, absolutely not. No way. Non. Nein. Europe is burning RIGHT NOW.

[headfirstonly@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Much of Europe is on fire. The UK is experiencing severe drought. This summer has seen heat records being broken around the world and the development of a super El Nino.

And this madness is what you have planned for the future? In what deluded version of reality does this make things better?

[jens@mastodon.floyd.dk]

@HennaVirkkunen But why?
Europe is burning and you want to convert more valuable energy into waste heat in giant data centres, without any benefit for the general public.

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

You can’t be serious…the continent is literally on fire and you want more giant water guzzling, excessive heat producing, AI slop generating data centres?