this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Is it the rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs?
To be fair, it could also be the clean water consumption, eco system destruction, extensive local warming effects, and noise pollution too.
Not to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.
It's not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone's job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either