The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@ansuz @engineer @danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen

I have an idea here: We *do* need to get off the Amerikaanse bigtech cloud. Let's build datacentres, but let's design them so they're (a) _efficient_ and (b) _flexible_, so when we finally get 'round to actually building them (and may it be because AI collapses tomorrow, with all its inefficiency and theft and planet-harming), we can build for ordinary cloud load, sustainable power, and a general win-win for everybody, not just billionaires pushing AI.

[hazzcon@mastodon.sdf.org]

@HennaVirkkunen that is some strong bullshit right there. AI continent my ass.

[vanecx@mastodon.pirateparty.be]

@HennaVirkkunen What a waste of resources
Please invest that money in digital commons instead, we need more democratic spaces and practices

[research_ftw@sciences.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Wow, you mean the AI bubble that's about to pop and cost trillions on wasted pointless data centres?
You are a bit behind the times!

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@HennaVirkkunen

So, just to confirm: you observed the US become dominated by billionaires and exploitative companies who are throwing trillions or dollars at technology that provides marginal (at best) benefits to society and entrenches their power, and your reaction was 'the EU should do that too!'?

For comparison, the amount that you're burning on this is more than twice as much as you'd need for the EU to build a competitive range of memory-safe sovereign CPUs from microcontroller up to server class devices and port most open-source software to run on them. This would reduce the attack surface for all EU infrastructure significantly and provide strong sovereignty guarantees.

Can you share how you did a cost-benefit calculation and decided that chasing a big-tech fad was the best return on investment for the bloc?

[cohentheblue@ohai.social]

@vanecx @HennaVirkkunen Public money, public code.

[stx@mastodon.scot]

@HennaVirkkunen Green doesn't suit you btw, maybe a blood red would be a better look.

[jussi@sielun.romu.casa]

@HennaVirkkunen Henna Virkkunen, palokunnassa sytytyspuolella. Toivottavasti sujahtaa sopivasti euroja taskuun niin ei tarvitse tuntea omantunnontuskia.

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@HennaVirkkunen Which Europeans did you ask if they *wanted* Europe to become an "AI continent"?
Because an overwhelming majority of us don't.

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@HennaVirkkunen do you hear yourself

[dataknightmare@mastodon.xyz]

@HennaVirkkunen

not a single person in your entourage with the know-how and the guts to tell you that mimicking the US in their descent into tech -fascism is the dumbest possible move?
Can you at least explain how this squandering of resources should be supposed to help EU industry at all?

[jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt]

@robelix being an EU financed project, they'll do the same they did in Web3/NFT/Blockchain: allow the projects to go forward while knowing fully well that it'll never bring anything to fruition.
@HennaVirkkunen

[radicalabacus@hachyderm.io]

@HennaVirkkunen the nuclear power station Romania had to shut down due to lack of water provides 1.3GW; 20% of the nation's electricity, or enough for 1 or 2 large AI data centers. These things are opportunities to send huge amounts of money out of the EU to import hardware that will be worthless within 3 years and will consume obscene amounts of power in the meantime

[androcat@toot.cat]

@HennaVirkkunen Spend the money on rooting out the far right terrorists instead.

It's self-funding once you put in the effort, since rich people are illegally funding these groups.

Including Putin, Musk, and other such known criminals.

[mcwabbit@tenforward.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Can we stop drinking the AI CoolAid? Let's stop drinking the AI CoolAid. There are more pressing matters like, oh I dunno: OUR CLIMATE AND LIVEABLE ENVIRONMENT.

[bencotterill@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen You’re pleased to do this?

It’s not a milestone it’s a millstone that will sink you.

[ftp303@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen hope that at least they're paying you well because all of this will be studied in the future, if there's any left, and all of you will be remembered as traitors.

[djsf@fosstodon.org]

@HennaVirkkunen Please do not do this

[anominominominous@polyglot.city]

@HennaVirkkunen there are wildfires everywhere, in sardinia we suffer from draughts, and you want to build a few goddamned slop gigafactories? i hope you "pro-ai" all have to pay 5 euros for a glass of water, you cunts

[leonieke@squilla.vitaulium.eu]

@HennaVirkkunen No, are you kidding me?
Our continent is on fire, drinking water is scarce, and you propose to have more useless data centers?