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TehCorwiz • yesterday at 7:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Eh. Destroying the racks is a waste of resources. Most of the metal components will be recycled. The boards scrapped for gold. The net positive is that many the data centers would shut down leading to a better balance overall.


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georgefrowny • yesterday at 7:31 PM

An interesting downstream effect of hypothetical highly-effective robotic AI labour would bring is the ability to strip, sort and test e-waste down to the component level.