The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[malte@radikal.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I hope you will consider how strongly represented people in computing is here on Mastodon and how many negative reactions you're getting for this call. The two might be related.

[janeishly@beige.party]

@HennaVirkkunen Have you not actually seen the news of the fires and other climate change devastation? We don't need this and we don't want it.

[onepunchmango@radikal.social]

@HennaVirkkunen tell me you dont care about your job, your responsibility, the EU, wildlife, humanity, the climate, a liveable future- without telling me you don't care about those things.

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@HennaVirkkunen why are we consuming US propaganda? Don't spend my tax money on bailing out failing "AI" businesses who can't even think of a viable business model.

[buherator@infosec.place]

@HennaVirkkunen You are an idiot.

[sortingbuttons@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Hey I know you like tech that calls you super smart with the bestest ideas, but how about I send you an email every day that tells you that and you spend the money on renewables instead. Sound good?

[yingfochung@nerdculture.de]

@HennaVirkkunen This is not in the interest of European citiziens.
Parts oft Europe is burning, another is hiding inside from the extreme heat wave, we got low water levels in rivers, depleating ground water.
Nobody needs this! Only autocrats that want to control desperate stupid people.

[willemsst@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen please don’t.

[davey_cakes@mastodon.ie]

@HennaVirkkunen Euro Torment Nexus

[sortingbuttons@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen And then when this industry collapses you can be the specialest person who was like, "I didn't waste your tax money on this, I improved the climate for us all instead". Omg you could be so cool and sexy if you did that, can you imagine?

[roskakori@graz.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

[ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog]

@engineer @danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen Historically, that has not prevented the projects with signed contracts from going forward. A lot of (EU-funded) Blockchain/Web3/NFT research projects were carried out long after their valuations had collapsed.

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@ansuz @engineer @danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen the EU couldn’t find its own ass with both hands and a map

[zabow@mastodon.bida.im]

@HennaVirkkunen AI gigafactories, uhm yeah. You really don't understand what you're talking about. And I thought you did.

@oblomov

[pelle@veganism.social]

@HennaVirkkunen
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

[moskitokoenig@dizl.de]

»This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.«
These days, I just find myself shaking my head more and more every day.

@HennaVirkkunen

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@HennaVirkkunen Even if we disregard all the ethical issues of LLMs like theft, scams, and so much more.
Even then when the AI bubble collapses that'll be €30 billion down the drain.
This will go down as one of the worst decision anyone in the EU has ever made....

[j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz]

@HennaVirkkunen If only I could vote you out of your position I would. And the world would be a slightly better place.

[adora@critter.cafe]

@HennaVirkkunen Well fuck you.

[kbal@fedia.io]

Attempting to rebrand your AI datacentres as “gigafactories” is an impressively bad way to announce this mistake. They are not factories. They do not manufacture anything. They run software, and they soak up surplus investment capital and other resources which are for some reason in need of burning.

People of the recent past and the recent future alike would have a hard time understanding how anyone could think that “Europe becoming an AI Continent” is a phrase that could be taken seriously by anyone.