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Generative AI, crypto, and space exploration linked to energy sector profits

The energy sector benefits from significant spending on generative AI and cryptocurrency. This energy consumption, particularly from fossil fuels, also subsidizes the cost of space exploration, such as SpaceX flights. The author criticizes this model as a "dirty" space racket, contrasting it with the "optimistic" portrayal by US tech journalists. AI

IMPACT Discusses the environmental and economic implications of AI development, linking it to energy consumption and space exploration costs.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the interconnectedness of AI, crypto, energy, and space exploration, criticizing the current model.

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Generative AI, crypto, and space exploration linked to energy sector profits

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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    Everything ties into everything else. The energy sector profits from runaway "Generative # AI " and # crypto expenditures. The oil and gas sector profit from the energy sector and additionally they play a key role in the destructive tech-sector designs on # space : all those chea…