Comment on Google reveals $1bn UK data centre it says will create jobs and 'boost growth of AI'
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Create jobs and growth of AI sounds like 2 conflicting interests. Maybe this data center creates a few jobs, but how many jobs will be lost to their AI advancement?
Jho@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I don’t know why people are downvoting this. I was thinking the exact same thing.
It feels disingenuous to say an advantage of this project will be that it will “create jobs” when at this stage we cannot predict how many people will lose their jobs to AI.
Not to mention the fact that we don’t have good energy security in the UK and now we want to build a AI data centre, something that is extremely energy intensive?
I don’t see how this will benefit the UK, though I can see how it would benefit Google and (to make some cynical assumptions) whatever politicians they lined the pockets of.