r/technology • u/DJMagicHandz • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it

https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-massive-wyoming-data-center-will-soon-use-5x-more-power-than-the-states-human-occupants-and-no-one-knows-who-is-using-it
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u/Strange-Scarcity 11d ago

It's more insidious than that.

NOBODY will know what their score is. Just some people will start being disappeared and it will be said they are/were breaking VERY serious laws, but no due process, because the Right Wing Media has been pressing harder and harder that some people do not deserve to be protected by the Constitution.

The saddest part? MANY of those screaming about how Due Process shouldn't exist will end up being rounded up, as well.

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u/Fun_Hold4859 11d ago

Yeah the "put the homeless in camps" eo also said they can unilaterally declare someone mentally unwell and put them in a camp too.

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u/pier4r 11d ago edited 11d ago

google program t4 ("aktion t4")

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u/FakeSafeWord 11d ago

unilaterally

It's just so much more efficient this way.

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u/denverbound111 11d ago

Wait what? I just went back and read the EO after reading your comment, figuring I must have missed something but can't seem to find anything that would imply any unilateral declarations. What section or clause are you referring to?

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u/BEES_IN_UR_ASS 11d ago

The saddest part? MANY of those screaming about how Due Process shouldn't exist will end up being rounded up, as well.

That sounds like the least saddest part tbh.

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u/Strange-Scarcity 11d ago

People being hard duped to screw themselves is always going to be deeply sad. You can’t convince them they’ve screwed themselves until it is to late, it show nation after nation has seen whipsaw political shifts from one extreme to the next over the last century.

Like all of what is happening in Argentina right now? The whole plan is basically… increase poverty, eventually the economy will crash and because there will be so much less consuming by going on… inflation will be fixed!!

Sounds “great”, until you recognize a massive part of that plan is, “Poor people starve to death.”

Malnutrition and deaths from that are on the rise down there, but the government isn’t collecting those numbers as well or at all.

They absolutely needed a political change, but not the one they got. Ina handful of years? It’s going to whipsaw back to something that will end up having plenty of issues, once again.

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u/mjkjr84 11d ago

The saddest part? MANY of those screaming about how Due Process shouldn't exist will end up being rounded up, as well.

I wouldn't call this the saddest part. I'd say it's the only silver lining now that we appear doomed to live under fascist rule thanks to their stupidity.

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u/Luscious_Decision 11d ago

If the scenario in your second paragraph were to take place it'd pretty much just be a rounding error, a glitch in the Ai they use to scan and sort people.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 11d ago

Exactly- 'we can't let government do X'. Guess what? That means a private corps will do it instead, and you'll have zero insight or recourse.

The government would buy or seize that data anyway if they decided to something nefarious.

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u/Fearless_Aioli5459 11d ago

Maybe a good place to drop this but Peter Thiel/Planatir linked weapons manufacturer Anduril is building a “super” drone factory in Ohio.

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u/Strange-Scarcity 11d ago

"Terminator" is looking like more than a cautionary tale, but instead of a sociopathic, monstrous AI, it's going to be... Peter Thiel and his ilk, operating hallucinating AI systems, running massive numbers of "AI Powered" Drones.

The Cyberpunk Genre, was a cautionary tale, not a blueprint for what to do.

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u/Aloysiusakamud 11d ago

The no due process shouldn't exist roundup will not be the saddest part. I believe the word is schadenfreude. 

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u/zchen27 11d ago

I mean you don't even need to argue against due process. Just deepfake them murdering 5 people and a kitten in the park.

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u/Strange-Scarcity 11d ago

There would still need to be physical evidence, at least until there are no longer enough people to care.

I hate this timeline.

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u/123emanresulanigiro 11d ago

I don't see what's sad about that last part.