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Is it really this hard to just say "no" to Microslop? You're realising that it'll hurt the country and its population (as well as the environment and by extension literally every single person on earth), why the fuck would you put you own personal wealth first?
I don't get that mindset.
Ya but only the poor half? Knowing how things will turn out in America you just have to weight the material wealth of the two sides. Which ever is more wins.
The government doesnt have to accept. If this proposal is going to knock out power for half your country and you accept that deal you should be thrown in prison.
I think you have a typo. But I agree.
I did thanks for pointing that out.
no, how it works is the government accepts, the political leaders get rich, and anyone who fights this gets thown in jail.
Corruption can be prosecuted
At this point I am wondering if the decision makers at these companies are incompetent or malicious and literally don’t know what they are building and just see big number.
(it’s both)
Malicious of course. They get their data centers, and they don't give a rats ass about the local population. They deliberately choose locations where local leadership is easy to bribe, like the US and other third world countries.
And racist. They're also racist.
they don't care. it's not maliciousness or incompetence, it's indifference.
Anyone who would decide to do this is evil. Like, orphan crushing machine evil.
If Microsoft wants to build that excess capacity, that would be reasonable. If Microsoft wanted to finance that excess capacity so Kenya could build it, that would also be reasonable. This is fucked up.
"Bill Gates is such a philanthropist, he's a 'good' billionaire."
The fuck he is. Also, if you think Bill has nothing to do with the direction of Microslop because he stepped down from the board a few years ago, think again.
"Gates' advice is reportedly treated as gospel, and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and consequently, the success witnessed in the category."
He also appears to represent Microslop at lots of official functions, like when the techbro oligarchs kissed Trumps ass at a dinner recently.
Makes sense, he and Orange Chicken are both Epstein pals.
Bill could drop dead tomorrow and nothing would change. corporate governance involves a lot more than one person.
To what end? Surely the payoff is way less than the resources it consumes. This is pure, unbridled dystopic social "terra-forming". People of the globe, unite!
This seems like an outrage optimized article and headline. I would expect them to utilize and build power sources in this context,i.e. not compete with citizen power and potentially cheapen electricity.
Do you see any credible evidence of that? Above anything, corporations get high off their own farts when they do anything good-will adjacent. If they planned on meeting the demand for power, a huge corporate production would be made of it.
Kenya was supposed to pay for geothermal capacity and didn't. Not suck off them corpos.
Bad publicity is bad for corpos. Cartoonishly evil is usually propaganda.
