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Donkees

(33,733 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2026, 08:46 AM Mar 12

Bernie: We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here's why.

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Bernie: We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here's why. (Original Post) Donkees Mar 12 OP

He's right. AI needs to be SLOWED DOWN until regulations are in place. CousinIT Mar 12 #1

Dems need to jump on this issue. It's a winner - and the right thing to do. 617Blue Mar 12 #2

DURec leftstreet Mar 12 #3

Thank you, Bernie Wild blueberry Mar 12 #4

K&R 2naSalit Mar 12 #5

CousinIT

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1. He's right. AI needs to be SLOWED DOWN until regulations are in place.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 09:49 AM

Mar 12

Otherwise, humanity can easily destroy itself.

Billionaires want to go full speed ahead, consequences be damned. They don't give a shit.

This is where GOVERNMENT REGULATION has a role -- forcing corporations to operate not only for their own private profit, but for the public good.

Capitalism is at its core, fiscal psychopathy. Capitalism must, to work for anything other than itself and its billionaire owners, be HIGHLY regulated by representatives of the people. In the US, that is Congress.

Right now, it's barrelling ahead with NO regulation and a Congress and POTUS that is demanding NO regulation -- consequences be damned. That's just goddamned STUPID.

And corporations are just as stupid. They are selfish, and they don't give a rat's ass what they do to the rest of the world for profit.

Only Congress can put up guardrails, and they MUST. But they're not - because Republicans hate government regulations.

S T U P I D.