My first clue is my memory of blockchain as I mentioned.
My biggest clue however is that it appears to be a London Horse Manure sort of problem. People stopped hating horses when London didnt end up covered under 20M of Horse Manure.
I know there are multiple angles to AI, and people ardently against AI tend to have multiple sets of goal posts prepositioned for switching, but ultimately they tend to come back to the ecological/electrical issues. Those issues are based on projections that rely on speculation that relies on OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure/Amazon plans being fulfilled perfectly + a continuation in that mode. We are already seeing these plans fall over and investment going elsewhere. It will be difficult to maintain the narrative that AI Compute is a direct risk to the environment as the projects dry up.
My first clue is my memory of blockchain as I mentioned.
My biggest clue however is that it appears to be a London Horse Manure sort of problem. People stopped hating horses when London didnt end up covered under 20M of Horse Manure.
I know there are multiple angles to AI, and people ardently against AI tend to have multiple sets of goal posts prepositioned for switching, but ultimately they tend to come back to the ecological/electrical issues. Those issues are based on projections that rely on speculation that relies on OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure/Amazon plans being fulfilled perfectly + a continuation in that mode. We are already seeing these plans fall over and investment going elsewhere. It will be difficult to maintain the narrative that AI Compute is a direct risk to the environment as the projects dry up.