The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@HennaVirkkunen seriously, right in the middle of the worst heatwaves SO FAR, with an upcoming even bleaker future, with half of Europe LITERALLY ON FIRE, the EU is going to donate billions to some of most climate-impacting and useless industries? Where did any of you get the idea that that was a smart thing to do?

How about you invest that money into gaining independence from the oil industry, given how impactful that has been already even in purely financial terms?

https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/30/clean-energy-saved-eu-51-billion-in-2025-by-cutting-fossil-fuel-imports-as-solar-leads-the

[carstenraddatz@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen €30bn, that is like, 1.5 bleeding edge gigafabs. One and a half.

Good start, but as an old man on Taiwan has said "too little, too late".

[jourei@mas.to]

@HennaVirkkunen
The ratio on this beast...

[_rya_@subversive.zone]

@HennaVirkkunen

The world is already burning and you are happy to accelerate that?

[helene@piaille.fr]

@HennaVirkkunen We would be glad if you could ask people before launching such stupid projects !

I'm sure the vote wouldn't be in favore of AI gigafactories, there's so many things to do to protect Europe and its citizens, so that they can live better in a living protected nature !

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@grumpydad @HennaVirkkunen

[eigengott@mstdn.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Oh dear, throwing more money at the AI bubble.

[ah@goto.boserup.eu]

@HennaVirkkunen There's no sovereignty in chasing the latest Big Tech Hype.

[motroet@troet.cafe]

@HennaVirkkunen Please don’t do this!

[otyugh@pouet.chapril.org]

@HennaVirkkunen I wish you'd just burn the money for free instead of also burning energy and the society playing into that AI deadend.

[sintrenton@todon.nl]

@HennaVirkkunen
Do you politicians take courses in Applied Ignorance or are you recruited due to talent?

Because, it can't be that you're just pawns of Big Money, right?

Read the room.

[ocramius@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen 30B that could've been diverted into making clean energy for everyone, and quick

[yora@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@HennaVirkkunen Keep your techno-fascist shit out of Mastodon.
You Nazis aren't welcome here.

[malte@radikal.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I hope you will consider how strongly represented people in computing is here on Mastodon and how many negative reactions you're getting for this call. The two might be related.

[janeishly@beige.party]

@HennaVirkkunen Have you not actually seen the news of the fires and other climate change devastation? We don't need this and we don't want it.

[onepunchmango@radikal.social]

@HennaVirkkunen tell me you dont care about your job, your responsibility, the EU, wildlife, humanity, the climate, a liveable future- without telling me you don't care about those things.

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@HennaVirkkunen why are we consuming US propaganda? Don't spend my tax money on bailing out failing "AI" businesses who can't even think of a viable business model.

[buherator@infosec.place]

@HennaVirkkunen You are an idiot.

[sortingbuttons@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Hey I know you like tech that calls you super smart with the bestest ideas, but how about I send you an email every day that tells you that and you spend the money on renewables instead. Sound good?

[yingfochung@nerdculture.de]

@HennaVirkkunen This is not in the interest of European citiziens.
Parts oft Europe is burning, another is hiding inside from the extreme heat wave, we got low water levels in rivers, depleating ground water.
Nobody needs this! Only autocrats that want to control desperate stupid people.