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Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.
Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.
Anthropic don’t own data centres, they rent their compute. Investing in every infrastructure for other companies would be short sighted to say the least. One of those hate the game not the player situations
It’s really not. Billionaires bribe governments, adjust the rules to serve themselves. The players are making up the game as they go along… And thus, deserve the blame for it being a shitty game.
Billionaires lobby governments. We can lobby governments too, but when do you see the people complaining crowd fund projects like that?
Gee, it’s not like 1% of the country owns 31% of its wealth and the next 9% own 36% giving them a wildly disproportionate advantage when it comes to bribing politicians.
Honestly, what are you doing? Like, why do you choose to defend billionaires with your time? Were you abused or something as a kid? Do you just like BDSM? Are you perhaps a fascist or against democracy?
…also, just the idea that “more money in government” is the answer. You’re just full of bad ideas. Clearly a big fan of the Capitalist mindset.
I’m an election volunteer and I have written policy for some political parties which was then adopted by some of the major parties here.
I have made a difference and effected some important change.
What are you doing? Do you just like to insult people on the internet and stay chronically online?
Really? Trying to make it personal? Bragging about political involvements?
That’s… not the winner you might think it is here. Clearly, you feel insulted, targetted and hurt. Well, let me help: this is just the internet dude. A few bad interactions, or bad comments you got downvoted on - doesn’t define you. Your whole self or considered phrasing/opinions weren’t in those comments. It’s not the end of the world, you and I aren’t in a “prove your political cred or die” situation.
You shouldn’t take it personally because this is not a personal space. I don’t know you. It’s anonymous. That’s part of the nature of the internet/comments section.
Like everyone always says: don’t read the comments. Chill out mother fucker, don’t throw good time/money after bad because there’ll be more comments to make tomorrow with different allies and different enemies. That’s just how things work here.
You literally just asked what I am doing politically? Take a break dude, go for a walk or something lol
Oh, no, that’s not how I meant it… See how I’ve asked you what’s you’re doing with your time before, and why you’re leaning the ways you do in your comments.
I didn’t mean “what are you doing IRL”… I meant, what are you doing with your comments, as in - what’s their function… What are they supporting. Why do you stick on these bad lines/arguments despite their flaws?
…and it was a rehtorical question. Not to be taken litterally but to be taken as what are you doing with your efforts in these specific comments.
An interrogative.
‘Should I think about myself and my actions? No, it’s the internet that’s wrong.’
People actually do crowdfund that kind of thing. You just do not hear about them as much because they do not have a PR budget. But there is a basic asymmetry here. One approval can be worth millions to a single company, so spending serious money lobbying for it is a good investment. For the neighbors, the harm, which includes noise, air pollution, and lower property values, is spread across hundreds of families. Everybody loses a little, even if the total harm is huge, so it is much harder to raise the same money. That is the classic collective action problem And residents are not lobbying for a handout. They are asking the government not to let a company profit by putting its costs on people who get none of the upside
Anthropic rent compute to make up for their own shortfalls in ownership. You can see on their careers site that they are hiring datacentre designers.
Very interesting observation, as far as I can find they’re not building anything significant yet?
Looking at the company ownership, it seems most of the company is owned by a trust that’s committed to doing the best thing for humanity (?) so hopefully we see some green future data centres
I don’t hold out much hope for them. I think they are the most interesting AI company, but I would bet they are also of the belief that the environment should be sacrificed for AI progress, as they also believe that AI will fix everything later