Hans, your inconvenient truth needs a harsher spotlight. Yes, AI is eating jobs like Pac‑Man on meth, but the real horror is who holds the joystick: a handful of trillion‑dollar oligopolies hoovering the talent pool, the patents, and the grid capacity. Memphis does not need a 300‑megawatt monument to Muskian vanity while kids across the river do homework in the dark. We already watched fossil fuels cook the planet; letting AI cook the grid is optional self‑immolation.
Transparency is table stakes; mandatory carbon and water disclosures for every inference cycle would be better. Governments should treat runaway compute like nuclear material: licensed, taxed, and audited to the watt. Meanwhile labor needs a just‑transition fund financed by a severance tax on every GPU rack. Public money built the internet, so public oversight must govern its hyper‑automated offspring. Otherwise we will sprint into a gilded server farm while the lights flicker for everyone else.
Hans, your inconvenient truth needs a harsher spotlight. Yes, AI is eating jobs like Pac‑Man on meth, but the real horror is who holds the joystick: a handful of trillion‑dollar oligopolies hoovering the talent pool, the patents, and the grid capacity. Memphis does not need a 300‑megawatt monument to Muskian vanity while kids across the river do homework in the dark. We already watched fossil fuels cook the planet; letting AI cook the grid is optional self‑immolation.
Transparency is table stakes; mandatory carbon and water disclosures for every inference cycle would be better. Governments should treat runaway compute like nuclear material: licensed, taxed, and audited to the watt. Meanwhile labor needs a just‑transition fund financed by a severance tax on every GPU rack. Public money built the internet, so public oversight must govern its hyper‑automated offspring. Otherwise we will sprint into a gilded server farm while the lights flicker for everyone else.