The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[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.

[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.