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Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers (www.techspot.com)
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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 84 points 4 days ago (1 children)

a new low for AI. Potentially putting people out of home now.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Imagine a dystopia where is regular folk have to live like the dark ages so the data centers can continue to use all the power generated. Our future looks so great....

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 5 points 4 days ago

i simply cannot wait until things get ~~better~~worse! the future looks so promising!

[–] other_cat@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Feels like the setup to a round of "Name that dystopian sci-fi novel!"