https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple#Reproductive_autonomy

I don’t necessarily disagree with your first point. Just that current human nature is short-term and selfish. Humans have never acted in a rational forward-looking way. I feel humans need to change in a foundational way before we see any kind of sustainable society.

And I don’t think I claimed the second. Again, just the way things are. Can we abolish capitalism and private ownership and personal autonomy to establish a new global society based on universal respect of all living beings? Sure. Will we? Not until we become something other than what we now consider “human”.

Personally, I think we are hopelessly doomed in the long run. But I have hope that I’m wrong.

Yes, technological societies use more and more electricity. Once cities were clogged with horses and shit. Steam engines ran on wood and coal. Cars are migrating from gasoline to electric.

I bought my suburban house 10 years ago. It had 50amp service. It had previously owned by the police chief. I had to immediately upgrade to 200 amps. The same is true for many houses in my area. None of these 1960 houses were meant for microwaves, central A/C, or a freezer in the basement. Not to mention electric for the car. My neighbor offsets this with solar.

When my company builds a new site, we make certain that capacity is added to the community that exceeds our use. And we pay for the build out. How the community adds that is their choice.

My place hosts for a biomedical. I understand they are working on molecular research including a Parkinson’s treatment. Meaningful work.

Not. All. Datacenters.

Musk, certainly is an asshole. Microsoft and Meta, too. I can’t speak to others.

Without details, I can’t say. Like I said, there are bad actors.

You see that in any city area.

That leaves room for pity. Not optimal.

I was in a meeting at a credit card company about 2 decades ago where a VP said exactly that - without the AI part.

Many AI datacenters use closed-loop cooling. Loaded once with RO purified water without any additions and zero discharge. I know because I work in one.

However, it’s the bad actors that get the headlines.

Even when it gets to that point, skill in trades would be useful. No one will barter food for a program, but would for a fix of leaking plumbing.

This guy heats.

https://xkcd.com/1737/

They are all over me. I expect it’s because I work for an AI-adjacent company.

I’d really like to know how they handle all the small-scale HW issues. As a DC tech, I’m kept quite busy with those

My company already does this.

Yup. Just got a great deal off of FB marketplace.

The survivors would duel, too. We could see even better results than that.