The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[raketti@mastodontti.fi]

@HennaVirkkunen meanwhile in Europe:
https://masto.ai/@CopernicusECMWF/117009507338120897

But sure, more resource hogging and biodiversity destruction.

[supernova@metalhead.club]

@HennaVirkkunen these 30bn are largely overpriced GPU, RAM and Flash that are obsolete and written off in 3 years. This invest is a waste of money. 7 Datacenters are roughly 100 people constantly swapping out the overpriced hardware.

[tartley@fosstodon.org]

@HennaVirkkunen The most promising research and commercial ventures speculating on what "AI" will look like in the near future don't need any datacentres at all. (e.g. https://www.cringely.com/2026/06/09/two-brains/)

Datacenter build-out is a staggering waste, further driving a bubble that will soon have a historic economic crash. Short sellers are already on the move.

[jztusk@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

Don't do it

[tartley@fosstodon.org]

@stonebear2 @ansuz @engineer @danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen and they should be public infrastructure, delivering compute or storage at cost to individuals, and with regulated margins to small business.

[r_3_t_3_c_h@defcon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Looks like you found the politicians purchased by the broligarchs.

[c0cochannel@infosec.exchange]

@HennaVirkkunen

fuck off

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@HennaVirkkunen So what's the plan when the wildfires inevitably burn down the data centres too? You gonna unlock €40 billion to rebuild them?

[number6@fosstodon.org]

@HennaVirkkunen

This is like saying you're going to save a drowning man by building a cargo ship.

[yashpheh@mstdn.social]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@yashpheh/116948140398058045

@HennaVirkkunen

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen this is madness

[bbbhltz@framapiaf.org]

@HennaVirkkunen

So all the land that burnt can be put to use I guess? To make porn? Or help with genocide? Backpedal on the everything good done for the planet? Give more money to Nvidia? Abuse and exploit workers in the global south? Use up the water? Scam senior citizens?

What else could someone be pleased about? Waiting up to 3 years to complete, fill them with old hardware...

Luckily only 1 in 6 of these is ever completed so you'll spend 30b on 1 obsolete slop factory.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen What a horrid, horrific, anti-human thing to want.

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@HennaVirkkunen how about no, that's fucked up?

[krnlg@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen
I hope they burn in the wildfires.

[akareilly@hachyderm.io]

@HennaVirkkunen

The money would be better spent making sure there are non-US alternatives to the systems that handle critical information.

Usable operating systems and office software, compliant with GDPR and accessibility requirements, would make moving off of Microsoft and Google products easier.

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@HennaVirkkunen AI Tech sovereignty comes more from genuinely open models owned by the end user, not centralised control where we all just become passive consumers.

[ulriknyman@mastodon.social]

@NiwlCraft @HennaVirkkunen in this case I think that they are ensuring that European companies can also steal IP.

[brendan@zenarca.de]

@HennaVirkkunen Thank you! I thought all the government officials who'd been hopelessly corrupted by AI money were here in the USA! I appreciate you reminding me that people are terrible everywhere!

[ginevracat@toot.community]

@uichelorraine @courtcan @HennaVirkkunen Absolutely!