alt Hacker News> Say what you will, but AI really does feel like living in the future.
Love or hate it, the amount of money being put into AI really is our generation's equivalent of the Apollo program. Over the next few years there are over 100 gigawatt scale data centres planned to come online.
At least it's a better use than money going into the military industry.
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What makes you think AI investment isn't a proxy for military advantage? Did you miss the saber rattling of anti-regulation lobbying, that we cannot pause or blink or apply rules to the AI industry because then China would overtake us?
Most of these AI companies are part of the military industry. So the money is still going there at the end of the day.
You know they will never come on line. A lot of it is letters of intention to invest with nothing promised, mostly to juice the circular share price circuils.
LoL, don't worry they are getting their dose of the snakeoil too
The Apollo program was peanuts in comparison:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compa...
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ECONOMY/AI-INVESTMENT/g...