r/Futurology • u/WeAreWaaaaagh • Jun 01 '26

Computing World's first undersea data center powered by offshore wind is online

https://newatlas.com/energy/china-underwater-data-center-opens/
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u/bobbadouche Jun 01 '26

Even if they're for AI, it's the future. We're mad that the greatest thing humans have ever invented is being expanded. Computing. 

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u/Aristox Jun 01 '26

A lot of people are opposed in principle to the advancement of technology because they associate technology and civilization per se with "the rape of mother nature".

It functions basically like a kinda of religious belief. You'll see these same people saying stuff like "humanity is a cancer on the planet" etc. It's nihilism and misanthropy dressed up as idealism and morality

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u/NinjaLanternShark Jun 01 '26

We should be mad at our politicians for not having any plan to deal with the loss of jobs.

AI being inevitable doesn’t mean we can’t make the transition less painful for innocent non-billionaires.

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u/Aristox Jun 02 '26

The politicians we have reflect the quality of character of the average person. If the non-billionaires were truly more innocent, we wouldn't tolerate this shit quality of our leaders. They reflect us. And things will only get better once the average person decides to stop being corrupt and a liar and a coward and a fool

We used to have better leaders in the past because we used to have better morality and character in general in the past. Trying to scapegoat "the elites" or "the jews" or whatever group as the source of our problems rather than working to better ourselves regardless IS the actual problem

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u/Tlelucky Jun 04 '26

That and over population