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It’ll be fun to watch companies that have invested ridiculous amounts of money in data centers scramble to make a return on their investment, or at least cut their losses. Investors have frequently been able to ignore public opinion, but they will not ignore losing their money.
Investors will simply sell their stocks. The companies on the other hand... I'm ready to see the world burn
Isaac Asimov had a pretty scathing critique of George Orwell's 1984. He said that it was unrealistic that a pervasive surveillance state could exist and be effective on the grounds that someone has to do the watching, and the manpower required would make it unfeasable. The data centers aren't being built so we can have pictures of anime waifus with messed up fingers. They're being built to sort and correlate the massive amounts of incoming information from things like flock cameras and any phone app that decides to sell your information. They're necessary infrastructure for a fascist surveillance state. Yes, there are false positives. Fascists do not care.
Will get bailouts.