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live love laugh

(15,204 posts) Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:41 PM 16 hrs ago

Where our data is going ....

Amazon announced plans to invest $35 billion in new data centers in Virginia by 2040.

Google announced plans to build a new $1.2 billion data center in Nebraska.

Meta just announced plans to break ground on a new $1 billion data center in Arizona.

Microsoft is working to bring a sixth data center to a city in Iowa…and plans to build 50 to 100 new data centers a year for the foreseeable future.

Tesla announced that it will build a new “1st of its kind” data center to grab its share of this new hyperscale boom.

From Motley Fool’s AI investment tips.

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Where our data is going .... (Original Post) live love laugh 16 hrs ago OP

It's going into AI and the purpose is to weaponize it against us. CousinIT 15 hrs ago #1

Pretty sure the goal is we're all going to be monitored like many people in China are AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #2

I bet these CEOs have a plan to use this massive data trove to make all of our lives better. Midnight Writer 14 hrs ago #3

CousinIT

(11,262 posts)

1. It's going into AI and the purpose is to weaponize it against us.

Reply to live love laugh (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:49 PM

15 hrs ago

And as US citizens we have NO recourse. NONE. There are no laws to protect us and there will be no humans to speak to if the bots decide to destroy our lives.

AZJonnie

(759 posts)

2. Pretty sure the goal is we're all going to be monitored like many people in China are

Reply to CousinIT (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 01:08 PM

15 hrs ago

And when you step out line, express dissent against the ruling regime and/or your robot overlords, you will whisked off to some re-education gulag, or worse.

Midnight Writer

(23,765 posts)

3. I bet these CEOs have a plan to use this massive data trove to make all of our lives better.

Reply to live love laugh (Original post)

Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:00 PM

14 hrs ago

I mean, how big of an asshole would you have to be to have hundreds of billions of dollars and decide you are going to use all that money and power to screw people over?

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