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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The peasants might light their torches

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Datacenters are expensive and soft targets.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Dude, building are pretty hard.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

not OP but I believe they're "soft" in the sense that they don't have moats/high electric fences/battalions of armed guards around 24/7

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

With a clipboard you could probably just walk in and start unplugging things

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's... Not quite true. Usually they take access quite seriously. If in a multi tenant space every space will be separated and the physical cages around the machines locked and monitored.

All the same they are designed to keep small numbers of mostly law abiding people out, not an angry mob with torches.

[–] JTode@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Agree. I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and I have visited local datacentres - anything built in the last twenty years would be very hard to physically penetrate with stealth alone.

There are older ones which might be a bit less sophisticated, but that's not the norm.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Challenge accepted

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah but it's really easy to hurt their feelings so be mindful

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

This guy knows how to translate billionaire dipshit speak.

[–] Xylian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

"Torching" the gas turbines what are on AI companies datacenters would be highly effective. Especially since they are outside and only a fence protects them.

It is so dump what they gas our environment for "AI". It was evil doing it in WW1 and WW2 and it is still today. See:

It is insane.