Cory Doctorow on Nostr: When we fight about data-center buildout, we mostly talk about the (considerable) ...

When we fight about data-center buildout, we mostly talk about the (considerable) environmental downsides to them - but what about the question of what we will do with these data-centers after their owners go bankrupt, possibly even before they can be provisioned with electricity? How many laser-tag arenas do we actually need?

This is just one example of the questions that you could spend *days* unpacking, which make many of the other questions about AI a little silly.

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