The Grief Tech Industry Built Its $5 Billion Business on the Dead. Nobody Asked Them
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Nobody Asked for AI
The Big Tech companies have spent $1 trillion on capital investment since the start of the artificial-intelligence boom. Pretty much all that investment has been used to build data centers, purchase the chips that power those data centers, and construct the energy systems that fuel and cool them.That $1 trillion could have been used for anything. It could have been invested in renewables. It could have been used to develop lifesaving new drugs. …
It has been revealed that the rent that major global information technology (IT) companies will have to pay to secure artificial intelligence (AI) data centers in the future has exceeded $1 trillion. Concerns are rising that if AI demand falls short of expectations, companies may have to bear massive costs for a long period. According to Reuters on the 4th (local time), five companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon, and Alphabet, are…
The grief tech industry built its $5 billion business on the dead. Nobody asked them
Meta has a patent for a system that would keep a deceased user’s account active — posting updates, leaving comments, responding to messages — trained on everything the person wrote before they died. The company has stated it has no current plans to build it. The patent sits in legal archives anyway, documented, approved, and deployable, inside an architecture that increasingly treats digital identity as an asset to be inherited rather than a lif…
Microsoft Corp, Meta Platforms Inc, Oracle Corp, Amazon and Alphabet have committed to about $1.09 trillion in future payments under leases that have not yet begun, mainly… $1 trillion in liabilities from 5 tech giants for AI data center leases - ΘΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ
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