And, meanwhile, those unemployed tech workers (as well as the rest of us) will be paying ever increasing energy and water bills and suffering greater risks from Climate disasters because the carbon footprint just from the AI systems was estimated to be between 32.6 and 79.7 million tons of CO2 emissions in 2025, with a water footprint of 312.5–764.6 billion L.
https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/meta-ai-costs-mass-layoffs-20percent-up-premarket.html
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/tech/amazon-layoffs-ai
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788
AI actually is causing a lot of unemployment in tech.
Not because it has been able to successfully replace anyone's job, but because the big tech companies are all gambling so much on becoming trillionaires that they have to throw tens of thousands of workers into unemployment to pay for it.
