Privatize the profit socialize the risk
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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Fuck no.
This is corporate socialism of costs and privatization of profits and we have to stop getting fucked this way.
Nuclear powered AI, if that doesn’t sound like we live in the future I don’t know what does.
Alternatively, ‘Huge corpo wants to siphon government money to reopen nuclear facility years after disaster’ sure sounds like the dystopian version to me.
Either way is quite futuristic! 🥲
Better said as "tax payers spend 1.6 billion to buy microsoft a new data center"