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US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

167 pointsby geoxyesterday at 2:00 AM234 commentsview on HN

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pcdoodleyesterday at 2:38 AM

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madhackeryesterday at 4:23 AM

Trump helping tech bros sell more data centers. A pledge is moronic. You pay for what you use since time immemorial. Don't need to redefine existing words with new meaning.

imchillybyesterday at 2:33 PM

The way to enforce this would be to provide US citizens with free electric and charge companies only.

That will never happen, but would prevent we the people from bearing these costs directly.

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yanhangyhyyesterday at 9:56 AM

It feels like ordinary people are becoming increasingly unnecessary. With AI, data centers, and big corporations, they don’t really need ordinary people anymore apart from their own employees. Capitalists only need robots and artificial intelligence to serve them, and ordinary people could just be put in zoos for display.

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