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  • Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable

    Charles Hugh Smith
    Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs.
    What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity… Continue reading

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