The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[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!

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@HennaVirkkunen How much were you paid to do this? I am seriously asking because we know how this works. Was it Altman himself, or a cutout? A different moron?

And speaking of morons, you'd have to be one to think this is a good idea, that, or wilfully blind.

I don't know anything about you but as a person with wealth in a position of power I expect you're either out of your depth and too much of an asshole to admit it, or a lying monster.

I'd put good money on you being both.

[khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@HennaVirkkunen key to strengthening your sovereignty is to stop falling for American bullshit, and as you present it there, you finished none of your homework.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen y'alll are out of the mind.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen throwing money at a "technology" which sucks our water and jobs is a bad idea.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@HennaVirkkunen - and just in case it's unclear what I am talking about, even if AI was useful, which it's not, and safe, which it's not, and fair, which it's not, and in line with the planet's environmental needs, which it's not, and legal, which is extremely debatable: https://www.somo.nl/eus-data-centre-expansion-will-fast-track-profits-and-power-for-us-big-tech-and-investors/

[kyva@meetiko.org]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu gigamierda

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@engineer
Yeah, but with contracts signed at bubble prices....
@danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen

[alien@mastodon.green]

@HennaVirkkunen it's a waste of time to actually reply as if she was reading, she's not. This is just a one way kind of account that may as well be a bot.

Which btw is shitty, posting stuff, upsetting people around and not even caring to read or even have a social media person to check and pretend to care.

[jakekb@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Announcing this while half your continent is literally on fire and thousands of people have died from an unprecedent heatwave is quite indicative of how detached EU leadership is from reality. If you are going to ignore the backlash and move on with your plans based solely on the advice of tech lobbyists, then please don't speak about democracy ever again. You are fascist who imposes the will of big tech on your citizens and should be treated as such.

[adrian@mastodon.design]

@HennaVirkkunen I'm sure a person who thinks AI is actually intelligent would think this is a smart plan.

We already have water shortages. Wild fires. Energy crisis. We absolutely do not need this hot garbage to exponentially increase those issues.

[collectifission@greennuclear.online]

@uint8_t If only the EU had been this swiftly on building nuclear power plants.

@HennaVirkkunen

[deuxmak@mstdn.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

EU being almost literally like...

[martijnveken@infosec.exchange]

@HennaVirkkunen Beter plan: send me 15 billion and keep the other 15 billion in your pocket. This way in the end we both have 15 billion more than with your original plan

[damon@social.wedistribute.org]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu some people will say abandon AI altogether, I think that’s negligent and people aren’t using their brains, especially as adversarial countries will not stop advancing AI. Being at a disadvantage against adverbial countries would be a terrible position.
I do encourage instead of Giga factories lead the charge in edge computing & services, in local AI. Chinese companies are advancing significantly with fewer resources so it’s clearly possible. Figure out how to advance using fewer resources

[nicoparis@eupolicy.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Instead of investing in AI which will vociferously consume electricity and water, we need to be investing faster and investing more in decarbonising our economies, in producing clean, renewable energy and in adapting to climate change!

[kir@mastodon.uno]

@engineer @danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen

this is actually funny

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen how about fuck no? which part of the disastrous environmental impact of these monstrosities have you not understood?

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen "it's ok, the next versions of these will be powered by dried-up rivers and burning forests, no doubt..."