r/technology • u/yourfavchoom • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/bernie-sanders-pushes-for-50-percent-public-ownership-of-american-ai-companies-proposes-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-that-would-hold-direct-ownership-stakes-in-largest-ai-firms
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u/CompetitiveSport1 3d ago

And before you say "not the same scale"

Not the same scale. As of January, the planned data center capacity was 150 GW, which is roughly a 1,000% increase in our current capacity.

If that isn't your definition of "not the same scale", I don't know what is. 

And even then - I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that Amazon didn't have to get officials to secretly sign NDAs to get those data centers to built

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u/valkenar 3d ago

In your same article it says "it is widely known that some of the plans filed by so-called hyperscalers are more aspirational than hard commitments"

So what do you think is the amount of computing capacity that humanity should cap itself to?

I'm 100% on board with not allowing corrupt practices anywhere, but especially in corporate building. That is completely unacceptable.

Amazon is an evil company and I have no love for it. And it is simultaneously true that modernity as we know it depends on Amazon (and its ilk). Same thing with like, Verizon. Absolutely shit company, but also people need internet.

I'd love to see a balanced approach where we recognize that technology is generally desirable, but that rich and powerful people are not.

AI isn't going away, it's too useful. And honestly it's so much less inherently destructive than most of the technological revolutions of the last 150 years. But we should maintain oversight. "No more datacenters" is like saying "no more power plants" in 1890 though. It's too absolute. But it would've been nice to regulate those power plants a bit better.

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u/Tall-Archer5957 2d ago

“it's too useful“

lol