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Jack Valentino

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9. A.I. uses too much electricity......

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 10:58 PM

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There is an AI bubble. It will burst. When is unknown, but think about this [View all] Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 OP

I saw on a Bravos Research video on YouTube yesterday bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #1

And fortunes will be lost Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #14

True, which is why you just can't randomly speculate or use hot tips from GoogleFi bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #18

The cost to the environment is very high, Alice Kramden Aug 2025 #2

A major hurdle is energy madville Aug 2025 #3

Yes to your first paragraph. Your last sentence is untrue hyperbole. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #15

By 2028 data centers will consume 45% madville Aug 2025 #24

Do you have a link for your 2028 figure? Biden's DOE says 7 to 12 pc by 2028 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #25

Rock music was, is, and always will be a good thing. Generative AI, the kind of AI hyped now, is the highplainsdem Aug 2025 #4

Citizens turn against ai data centers cbabe Aug 2025 #5

The 2000 dot-com bubble didn't kill the internet. tinrobot Aug 2025 #6

True, but I find it interesting AI cap-ex is much bigger than dot-com cap-ex in 2000 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #16

Probability OC375 Aug 2025 #7

LUDDITES UNITE !!! Mossfern Aug 2025 #12

Like humans Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #17

With any luck AI will crash so badly that investors will be scared off for decades. hunter Aug 2025 #8

Like the dot-com crash? Didn't scare off investors for even one decade. Some kind of crash, but not decades deep. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #19

I can imagine AI severely damaging a regional electric grid during a deadly heatwave. hunter Aug 2025 #27

I can imagine things too. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #29

I don't know about you, but my imagination, and even to a certain extent my paranoia... hunter Aug 2025 #30

My imagination has made me money, and kept me out of much trouble too. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #32

AI as it currently exists will end up like some kind of chronic disease. hunter Aug 2025 #33

A.I. uses too much electricity...... Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #9

Name a major technological breakthrough that the world back away from due to... Melon Aug 2025 #10

China consumes a lot of power. They also lead the world in reneawble energy investment. CentralMass Aug 2025 #26

China also has 1200 coal fired plants vs US 195 Melon Aug 2025 #28

More importantly they are building nuclear power plants... hunter Aug 2025 #31

It's not nearly as big of a bubble as the Dot-com bubble was because AI companies are making a crap load of sales Quixote1818 Aug 2025 #11

Excellent analysis. Thank you. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #20

AI is a useful tool, that's it. Xolodno Aug 2025 #13

It is missing the boat to dismiss it as a tool. The internet was/is a tool, but it was * transformative *. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #21

It hurts people and the planet. Ron Green Aug 2025 #22

Precisely - and how will it be powered? By coal and gas, because they're cheap, and renewables are gay, woke and trans. hatrack Aug 2025 #23

Hey thanks for the credit bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #34