Just to make it clear: I do not believe this and I am convinced good old human greed is what’s really driving the ai and data-center insanity. Also, LLMs are not and will never become AGI.
Having said that: if an artificial super-intelligence were to emerge, building more data-centers could well be one of it’s primary goals. Since it wouln’t be concerned with consequences for the environment or humanity, it could pursue this at any cost, with only speed and scale in mind. Convincing financial markets and business elites of the necessity of such a buildout would be the ideal way of achieving results. In this scenario, fighting this buildout by any means would be the only sensible response and of utmost importance.
It’s a somewhat funny, somewhat depressing thought for me and I literally had it in the shower. Surely I can’t be the first to come up with this, but I also can’t remember having read it before.
Well if its not concerned with the environment and humanity its kinda dumb. These things have to be maintained and powered and right now that means humans and it needs to use renewable long term just like humans do.
You’re talking about corporate leadership, right?
Because AI data centers can actually be built and maintained by robots, robots that can also build nuclear power plants even after the sky is burned and the only carbon based life left on Earth has to hide underground.
they really can’t currently. maybe eventually but not currently. they will need robots building robots that build robots and then maybe but I still say we are a good disaster recovery option.
I suspect an AI takeover will have a more Eastern approach than Western, meaning: slowly build advantage across the decades instead of flashy power grabs.