The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

"Gigafactory" is a term coined and popularized by known fascist and racist Elon Musk. "AI Factory" was coined by NVIDIA to make investments into their graphics cards look like a reasonable way to use one's resources.

That alone should stop anyone from using those terms or their composita. The fact that "AI" hasn't shown meaningful contribution to economic growth or increased productivity is another mark against it.

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[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

But "AI" does what it was built to do: Disenfranchise Labor, push down wages, increase power and economic inequality. Those "Factories" produce injustice. No democracy should want anything to do with it.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117008662026532827

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[paavi@mastodontti.fi]

@ansuz @engineer @danielquinn @HennaVirkkunen Not to mention money wasted on Hyperloop thingies.

[larsmb@mastodon.online]

@HennaVirkkunen How does this square with the sustainability goals, or the human rights charter (Amnesty International has thoughts on the compatibility here)?

[curiousmagpie@beige.party]

@HennaVirkkunen WTF is wrong with you?! Have you noticed Europe is burning? Do you not understand the connections? The shortsightedness is astounding, and not in a good way.

[brezelradar@norden.social]

@deuxmak @HennaVirkkunen

Yup.

https://www.france24.com/fr/info-en-continu/20260726-incendie-en-gironde-la-symbolique-tr%C3%A8s-forte-des-vacanciers-sous-leur-parasol

[spirit@cybernetic.monster]

@HennaVirkkunen and to think I was worried that the United States was the only ones making ignorant, environmentally destructive policy decisions.

[clockwooork@sociale.network]

@HennaVirkkunen

Thanks, I hate it. Everyone hates it. Nobody asked for it.

[dancli@owo.cafe]

@HennaVirkkunen how about this: don’t. My country is scorched by wildfires and this is precisely the kind of decision that will worsen our situation.

[rightsprung@c.im]

@HennaVirkkunen

This is a terrible idea. Burn down the environment for a fascist intellectual theft machine that is wrong about everything, so it can replace critical thinking.

Why not invest in clean energy, universal basic income, and climate change mitigation instead?

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@HennaVirkkunen mmm slop juice

[nakal@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen #fuckai ... please invest in education, so we actually don't depend on "AI".

Smart and intelligent people are the best investment.

[grebdioz@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen

Ah, who does not want Giga-Asbestos-Factories

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

[niwlcraft@mastodon.art]

@HennaVirkkunen People like you enabled the American big tech to steal my intellectual property and job.

[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.