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The number of Irish people unable to pay their electricity bills rose to almost 320,000 in December last year, an increase of just over 20% on the previous year.
Ireland has amongst the highest electricity bills in Europe.
Ireland has amongst the highest data center electricity demand in the world.
Data centers drive up people's electricity bills all over the world
The hidden cost of 'free' Big Tech
"For years, scientists and economists have been asking: is it possible to grow without heating and polluting the Earth? And as the climate becomes more unstable, the issue is only becoming more urgent."
Madeleine Finlay hears from Nick Stern, professor of economics and government at the London School of Economics, and Jason Hickel, a political economist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, two economists arguing for a change in how we measure a country’s economic success.
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It’s Comically Easy to Trick ChatGPT Into Saying Things About People That Are Completely Untrue
"Anybody can do this."
AI is the Great Big Lying Machine. Built on theft by grifters and scammers, it will consume everything, given the chance.
A journalist demonstrated this by duping ChatGPT into telling other users that he was a world-class competitive hot-dog eater.
Futurism (futurism.com)
@nina_kali_nina Get better soon, Nina. Health and happiness. 
“We’ve been invaded by data centers,” activist Teresa Roldan Soria explains, with grim humour. “The data centers have the privilege to be in spaces that have water access. But they want to give the people ‘regenerated’ water. They named the state the paradise of data centers, but it’s the State of Extinction, because we don’t have water.
“We have to fight the government,” she said.
They consume vast amounts of power and water. They push the price of energy up. They produce huge amounts of waste heat. They take us a thousand steps closer...
Hotpress (www.hotpress.com)
