Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

  • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
    121·
    4 days ago

    Billionaires lobby governments. We can lobby governments too, but when do you see the people complaining crowd fund projects like that?

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      4 days ago

      “When billionaires do it, people get angry - but when the people do it, people don’t complain! It’s like this is a democracy or something!”

      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.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
        312·
        4 days ago

        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?

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          4 days ago

          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.

          • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
            16·
            4 days ago

            You literally just asked what I am doing politically? Take a break dude, go for a walk or something lol

            • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              4 days ago

              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.

    • tomcatt360@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      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