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.
Linus Pauling, genius chemist, one of the few people to have won multiple nobel prizes, and the only person to win multiple nobel prizes without sharing them.
Also the guy that decided vitamin C was a miracle cure and advocated that everyone eat like, 100,000% daily value of it.
I have books written by the dude on my bookshelf. The chemistry ones, that is. The vitamin C is bullshit.
Being really really really good at one thing doesn’t make you good at everything. Not saying this necessarily applies to ted, but, ya know.