Kroger’s Plan to Use Facial Recognition Cameras As Part of ‘Digital Pricing’ Raises Concern: ‘Imagine a grocery store AI basing the price of YOUR item on YOUR biometric data: income, race, net worth, social credit — to determine what to charge you’

https://emilytvproducer.substack.com/p/surge-pricing-isnt-the-worst-part EmilyTVProducer Imagine the grocery store AI basing the price of YOUR item on YOUR biometric data: income, race, net worth, social credit — to determine what to charge you. Kroger’s Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing How soon will the Minority Report-style supermarket arrive? By Matt Novak Published October 16, 2024 […]

Big Tech Goes Nuclear

Big Tech Goes Nuclear After many years of big tech companies in Silicon Valley drinking the kool-aid of the climate change apocalypse, they are now suddenly waking up to two unavoidable realities. First, the next generation of tech products will require much more energy to produce. And second, wind and solar aren’t scalable to come […]

AI May Bring Back Three Mile Island: Microsoft plans to reopen the 1979 disaster site. Proliferating data centers need even more energy.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/artificial-intelligence-may-bring-back-three-mile-island-microsoft-data-center-energy-c125eef3?utm_campaign=L%3AP%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=327569329&utm_content=327569329&utm_source=hs_email By Mark P. Mills The news that Microsoft plans to fund the reopening of the undamaged reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant spread almost as quickly as news about the nuclear accident at that same site in 1979. Microsoft’s decision was animated, as the Journal reported, by the “gargantuan amount of power needed for data […]

Climate activists lament: ‘The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters’ – “We were poised to shift away…But now we’re going in the opposite direction’

https://futurism.com/the-byte/us-backsliding-fossil-fuels-ai The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters – “We were poised to shift away from the energy system of the past … But now we’re going in the opposite direction.” by Frank Landymore The monstrous energy demands of AI data centers are set to keep surging — and it’s no […]

Three Mile Island is reopening & selling its power ‘exclusively’ to Microsoft to power its ‘AI ambitions’ – ‘Deal is enabled by Biden’s climate bill, which contains billions in tax credits’

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html By Jordan Valinsky, CNN CNN — Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ambitions. Constellation Energy announced Friday that its Unit 1 reactor, which closed five years ago, is expected […]

Wash Post: ‘AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution’ – ‘Artificial intelligence is driving an expansion of fossil fuel use’

Washington Post: “The voracious electricity consumption of artificial intelligence is driving an expansion of fossil fuel use — including delaying the retirement of some coal-fired plants. …

Tech companies had promised “clean energy would be this magical, infinite resource,” said Tamara Kneese, a project director at the nonprofit Data & Society, which tracks the effect of AI and accuses the tech industry of using “fuzzy math” in its climate claims. “Coal plants are being reinvigorated because of the AI boom,” Kneese said. “This should be alarming to anyone who cares about the environment.” … Data centers, the nondescript warehouses packed with racks of servers that power the modern internet, have been around for decades. But the amount of electricity they need now is soaring because of AI. … A ChatGPT-powered search, according to the International Energy Agency, consumes almost 10 times the amount of electricity as a search on Google. 

AI = Energy Detransition: Energy analyst Mark P. Mills Testifies to Congress on how massive electricity demand for AI means ‘policymakers can no longer entertain the idea of an ‘energy transition’

Mills: “Given the emerging scales of electricity demand from the cloud and AI, especially when added to the emerging demands from reshoring manufacturing and promoting EVs, it should be clear that policymakers can no longer entertain the idea of an “energy transition.” The nation’s electric sector will need full access to all options to ensure enough electricity is produced reliably, and at prices American businesses, and ultimately the public, can afford.”

Black Rock’s Larry Fink Admits Green Energy IS A FRAUD! – At the WEF, Larry Fink ironically destroys net-zero when it comes to the power needed for AI: “By 2030 [data centers] need 30 gigawatts.. Where’s that power gonna come from? To power these data companies you can’t have intermittent power like wind & solar”

Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’

Watermelon Communism: Meta AI Excuses ‘Degrowth Communism’ as Tool to Fight Climate Change

Climate Depot Founder Marc Morano told MRC Free Speech America that he had to “give Meta AI credit. It has a great tone that sounds very unbiased and analytical as it spews pure propaganda.” 

Morano repudiated Meta AI for “cherry-picking science to support the idea that climate is in crisis, and we need to act on it and that there’s some kind of consensus.” But, as Morano observed, “the consensus and the climate cases are about as real as AI is. The real irony here is that the power usage needed to power Big Tech’s goal of AI becoming dominant is going to destroy and derail the green agenda because it lays the fact that solar and wind and renewable energy cannot possibly power the AI-powered demands, let alone modern society.”