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Michael Spencer's avatar

Pretty soon its shareholders who are going to be paying for these data centers not to mention higher electricity prices. If this movement doesn't create new jobs the labor market is going to deteriorate fast. Where are the people in America asking actual questions about this? While the Trump Administration benefits from hyping the technology and boosting crypto.

The demand for compute will go up exponentially and the bond market is going to end up paying for it. But death and robots is not how to finance an empire in decline or rejuvenate it.

FG's avatar

Don't fear the repo and AI hate you so much right now. We should be paying for this. I can't believe you're giving this away for free.

Art P's avatar

I say it at least once a year. But quietly. To myself. Hint, hint.

GD's avatar

Thanks for teaching this Yank a new word today (“berk”). Brilliant!

Martin Hayman's avatar

It is a shortening of the Cockney rhyming slang epithet 'Berkshire Hunt'. Do your own poetry!

Bonzo's avatar

AI is just a fancy way of trying to steal the smart kid's homework.

Synthetic Civilization's avatar

What spooked markets here isn’t “AI capability” so much as loss of control.

Agentic systems blur who initiates actions, who owns costs, and who’s accountable when things sprawl. That’s a governance problem, not a tech one.