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Chinese AI tech DeepSeek is forcing a second look at proposals to build a record number of new fossil fuel power plants

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1486028

A new artificial intelligence model from China not only upended stock markets this week, it also called into question whether the rush to build new, mostly fossil-fueled power plants to run data centers is premature.

  • BananaEnglish
    121·
    7 days ago

    That’s not the threat you think it is

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
      39·
      7 days ago

      China is an entire economy built on intellectual property thievery and slave labor. The whole thing, that’s their advantage, and source of gdp which perpetuates the CCP’s stranglehold on 1.4 Billion people . Theft and slavery. The Chinese CCP can fuck off into the sun.

      • BananaEnglish
        91·
        7 days ago

        The only difference between that and the US is that China calls itself communist (china is communist in the same way the states is a democracy).

        Oh, and the Chinese actually have socialized healthcare.

        • Gadg8eerEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          As a Canadian, I’ll back you up on that. The CCP itself can fuck off, but at this point the US has become little better. It was built on slavery and the invention of permanent intellectual property to criminalize having knowledge, and it has elected that orange monster a second time. I value my friends, not my country, because your country can still betray you and continue to say it’s still your country.