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Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

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Meta nuclear powered AI data center scuppered by discovery of rare bee species
« on: November 04, 2024, 04:40:34 pm »
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Re: Meta nuclear powered AI data center scuppered by discovery of rare bee species
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2024, 06:15:47 pm »
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Re: Meta nuclear powered AI data center scuppered by discovery of rare bee species
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2024, 06:28:22 pm »
When I consider the number of 'fossil fuel' projects that have been held up or even scuttled over the mating habits of some common species (like the elk rut, as if anything will deter an elk in rut) or a butterfly that was "not very common" in the 1910 survey of the badlands, and true to form is still "not very common" even today (but that was taken as evidence of its endangered-ness), the idea that a cybernetic hive mind project could be held up by critters with a literal hive mind seems ironic, if not amusing.
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Re: Meta nuclear powered AI data center scuppered by discovery of rare bee species
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2024, 07:12:06 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on November 04, 2024, 06:28:22 pm
When I consider the number of 'fossil fuel' projects that have been held up or even scuttled over the mating habits of some common species (like the elk rut, as if anything will deter an elk in rut) or a butterfly that was "not very common" in the 1910 survey of the badlands, and true to form is still "not very common" even today (but that was taken as evidence of its endangered-ness), the idea that a cybernetic hive mind project could be held up by critters with a literal hive mind seems ironic, if not amusing.

It's still "economic development" of some sort, I wasn't discriminating in any way. Same could be said for a fossil fuel project. I mean this is even dumber because fossil fuels are often eschewed by these tech companies as something evil anyway.
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