Merged Artificial Intelligence

[Roger Ramjets]

Wouldn't be my taxes paying for it, mate.

Fair enough. Substitute your own government in that sentence.

AI data centres are booming in Australia - but at what cost?

Australia has quickly become a global destination for data centres, with investors attracted to the country's abundance of clean energy, natural gas reserves, and land to power and house their technologies. Earlier this year, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said Australia could become a data centre capital of the world, if it wanted to.

Australia is already headed in the direction of big tech's wishes. There are 162 data centres across the country, with plans for 90 more, and an estimated more than A$155bn of investment money lined up. If approved, one of the world's biggest data centres will be built in western Sydney. At one gigawatt, it is expected to be Australia's largest single energy user.

Jon Whittle, a former director of the digital research centre at the country's national science agency CSIRO, who is now a leading voice in AI and business, agrees with this. He says the government doesn't really have a choice but to continue down the investment path.

 

[Orphia Nay]

"Australia has quickly become a global destination for data centres, with investors attracted to the country's abundance of clean energy, natural gas reserves, and land to power"

Note they don't mention water.

 

[Orphia Nay]

They don't make money until the AI makes a profit

And I hope they never do. Seriously, they're setting up these apps, sites, and datacentres, and stealing knowledge from the internet, enshittifying the internet, and then they think they can sell it back to us for their own profit. I hope they fail with a capital F for "◊◊◊◊ off with your AI".