Comment on Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First they’d have to get fusion power to produce net electricity, and then for it to produce it economically compared to other sources. We’ve made progress but it’s been decades in the making and I’d be willing to bet will be a few decades more, even if I do expect it to get there one day.

  But what’s dystopian about fusion? It’s just another energy source. A bit cleaner than some of the older ones, but not really anything fundamentally different.

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  • witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What’s dystopian is that a company like google will fight tooth and nail to remain the sole owner and rights holder to such a tech. A technology that should be made accessible outside the confines of capitalist motives.
    Such technologies have the potential to lift entire populations out of poverty. Not to mention that they could mitigate global warming considerably.
    It is simply not in the interest of humanity to allow one or more companies to hold a monopoly over such technology

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