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usonian

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3. But that electricity is needed to profile you on Facebook, Twitter and Google, to run gigawatt data centers for AI.

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 03:14 PM

Sep 2025

And who pays for the infrastructure buildout to power them?

Us suckers.

Until there's a damn lot more (gigawatts worth) of on-site power, electricity is a zero-sum game.

It's "we live' or "they profit". You know the rest.

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