The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[kritischelezer@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen You are out of your mind. Future generations will remember this colossal waste of energy and resources. #climatecrisis #extractivism

[mro@digitalcourage.social]

@HennaVirkkunen
Please do not do this

[andre@waag.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I can imagine we want some investments in this area, but invest wisely and forward thinking. Don’t expect miracles by throwing money. Latest insights indicate that smaller models can be very effective. And please consider the environment, the main challenge that we have!

[kappazeta@mastodon.bida.im]

@HennaVirkkunen
this decision will take money away from climate action and social services and it will lead to the death of many people (heat waves, wild fires...) and to the destruction of the environment and its natural resources in the whole continent. EU is making the worst choices and the people (as always) will pay the consequences. Shame on you and the European Commission.

[decibyte@social.data.coop]

@HennaVirkkunen What an absolute waste of money and planet.

[jarjan@mederland.nl]

@HennaVirkkunen
Please don't? I prefer a livable planet!

[resistai@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen You and the EU are set to enlarge US Big Tech’s power at the expense of EUs own autonomy, climate, environment and democracy.

If you haven't noticed the world is burning and dirty data centres is absolutely not what humans need now.

#StopDatacentre #resistAI #AI

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@david_chisnall @HennaVirkkunen

on the other hand, 30 billion , over a few years, for capex, is not that much money for the EU
right ?

and IF you accept that machine learning is AI, THEN alpha fold is a clear example of great benefit to society

also, I think it is true that for the last 200 years, *every new promising tech, canals, railroads, etc, has seen a huge boom bust in CAPEX

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@HennaVirkkunen can we at least wait with GPU shopping until the bubble bursts? and can you start with building PV+storage+grid *first* for some future datacenters instead of more fossil gas like the US is doing it

[krolli53@digitalcourage.social]

@HennaVirkkunen please stop this madness.

[matildalove@wetdry.world]

@HennaVirkkunen kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves kill yourselves

[wizbean@tech.lgbt]

@HennaVirkkunen
@digitaleu
@EUCommission

What are our options as member countries and as citizens to prevent more of these datacenters from being built?

Can we opt out of having our data and identities processed by datacenters?

What is the commission and European parliament doing to protect us from the harmful effects of datacenters, including:

• Air pollution, associated with illness and climate change;
• Water pollution and heat dumping;
• Noise pollution and quakes;
• Using improportonate amounts of electricity from the common power grid and driving up electricity prices for everyone;
• Supplementing their electricity with polluting diesel and fossil gas powered generators;
• Using improportonate volumes of municipal water, especially during heat waves in which our governments are restricting water for personal use?

Thank you and have a nice day.

[cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com]

@HennaVirkkunen you have got to be fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zeezee@mastodon.nl]

@HennaVirkkunen

Stop following the hype built on lies.
Stop feeding trees, water and electricity the natural world to an economic lie thats going to crash.

Take care of the people and planet and their needs instead of the bigtech bros.

It isnt very hard to see the road you are taking is going nowhere.

[ariasuni@gts.lutaines.eu]

@HennaVirkkunen
Imagine if that kind of money was used to stop climate change, not worsen it.

[airwhale@beige.party]

@HennaVirkkunen

Right, so we don't have enough water to cool our existing nuclear power plants or irrigate fields that produce our food, so I'm sure this is a brilliant idea!

Just make sure to put them somewhere out of reach from the fires. (We are probably running out of water to fight those effectively too, but as long as we can create AI slop, we'll be fine?)

Please reconsider, @HennaVirkkunen - the value really isn't there.

[tamewhale@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I am vaguely interested if you believe the things you are doing are not catastrophic for the planet, humanity and culture or if you think the repercussions won't affect you and you'll be rich and dead by the time the oceans boil

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @HennaVirkkunen

It's not a huge amount in comparison to the total budget, it's an enormous amount in comparison to most other individual projects that the EU is investing in.

[lucydev@wetdry.world]

@HennaVirkkunen yaaaay now european impoverished neighborhoods can live next to shitty ass datacenters just like american ones!

Honestly, it's kinda sad to see the EU having become a shell of it's former self, shitting on human rights, forcing citizens into poverty, forcing small and medium sized businesses (especially in the starting stage) to go insolvent and close for the benefit of large US tech corporations, and now pledging to make living conditions around these planned datacenters worse for the people living there, putting more strain on the electricity grid for overhyped autocorrect instead of,,,yk,,,ACs so your citizens don't fucking die beneath your feet, but it's all fine as long as the shareholder value is good enough, right?

Which lobby group bribed y'all this time?

[blupblup24@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I also agree with a lot of the criticisms other people have made.
I am very much against Europe becoming an "AI continent" for a lot of reasons and will fight against all AI-datacenter projects near me in Austria.
Be aware that your plan is not something we as the general public approve of!