We speak with tech journalist Paris Marx about his new book, Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires. In the book, Marx exposes the deceptive ways tech companies are taking resources from vulnerable communities in order to build massive AI data centers. “We have seen the tech companies that, back in 2019, 2020, wanted us to see them as climate leaders …
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The whole premise AI companies use is to sacrifice present conditions for a theoretical future that they never actually have to deliver.
They take the money and loans now, make promises of “one day”, when it’s a scam TODAY. They’re getting paid in loans TODAY already. That’s how a grift works: “there’ll be great rewards in the future if you give me money now”.
Some of them even claim they’re ushering in a new age, or form of consciousness. Some really believe their money collecting routines.
