Those data centers drive up energy costs for us and increase global warming. They don’t help at all. Plus AI steals IP of creatives.
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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 hours agoThey will loose their jobs, because the economy slowed down and nobody is buying anything and their jobs aren’t needed anymore
No.
The AI debt creation and investment is not of any benefit to the working class (except for a few construction workers). These data centers don’t create 1000s of jobs. Windsurf has 250 employees. Cursor has 30.
This AI bubble is not affecting general income, only assets. As it doesn’t hit income, it doesn’t hit consumption. Poor people earn and consume. They are asset poor.
A pop in the AI bubble will damage the billionaires, but not the poor.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Totally agree. But this thread was talking about what happens when the AI bubble pops.
Redex68@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
But I’m not saying the jobs lost by AI companies collapsing is gonna cause a recession, I’m saying the AI bubble collapsing, bringing down the stock market with it, will cause a recession and loss of jobs. 35% of the S&P is made up of stocks in the top 7 US tech firms. The stock market is extremely skewed towards these 7 firms, and a large part of their current evaulation is made up from speculation of potential AI returns. When the bubble bursts, everyone who is invested in these firms will feel it. As I said, the top 10% of Americans make up 50% of consumption, can’t find a confirmation but I think that’s the highest in modern history. If this 10% suddenly looses 30-40% of their wealth because a stock market crash, this consumption will be severely affected. They won’t buy as many fancy goods, won’t go on expensive vacations, in general will do much less. We can argue whether having a class of people like that benefits the economy or not, I’d say it doesn’t, but the fact of the matter is that if the stock market were to crash because of AI companies, everyone is affected, because of how much money the 10% spend.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This wasn’t always true. When the bubble bursts the S&P investors will revert back to a more realistic valuation. AI bursting won’t affect LLY, JPM, WMT, COST etc.
Nothing of value has been lost. People just have the wrong anchor points.
These 10% are consuming their income, not their wealth. An AI stock crash will have little to no effect on their income. (Except for the small proportion actually employed in AI research).