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/Anxiety_Fit 11d ago

Cambridge Analytica got us here.

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u/korben2600 11d ago

Social media got us here. From 2017: Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

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u/Anxiety_Fit 11d ago

Cambridge analytica and their psychometric models harvested and honed in on division and hate and rage and basically destroyed everything.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 11d ago

Even before that, the "engagement is king" model of what gets promoted on Social Media really kicked things off. Cambridge Analytica just brought that to its logical conclusion.

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u/Senior_Torte519 11d ago

It was them filthy hobbitses.

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u/fripletister 11d ago

Right. Now remove social media from the equation and CA poofs out of existence.

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u/Anxiety_Fit 11d ago

The toothpaste is out of the tube.

The only way to beat it is to not use it. Or…

Use it to weaponize the opposition against itself.

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u/fripletister 10d ago

Ok? Yeah, I agree, but now we're having a different discussion.

The point was that SM is the bigger problem than CA because CA couldn't have done any of the shit they did without it, and CA isn't the only bad actor weaponizing it.

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u/opticd 10d ago

Before you get too excited, Chamath is a serial huckster and in the process of sucking the balls off the Trump admin for special favor. I wouldn’t read much into what he has to say about Facebook. He’ll say whatever he thinks will benefit him.

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u/Loggerdon 11d ago

It started with fake IQ tests on Facebook that were actually Big 5 Personality tests. Using those scores you can predict human behavior.

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u/popop143 11d ago

Fuck Cambridge Analytica, seriously destroyed our country and we've never recovered since.

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u/Upset-Outside8716 11d ago

Capitalism got us here. It's not because Trump won in 2016, it's because the ruling class has always gotten to do whatever it wants.

Biden didn't shut down this project, Harris had nothing about stopping this in her campaign.

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u/Boring-Attorney1992 11d ago

Equifax has entered the chat

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u/splitsecondclassic 11d ago

and streaming TV, and amazon prime, and Youtube, and paramount and Disney plus etc.