Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.
Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.
Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.
Go to the library.
THE AI SCAM IS COLLAPSING AND THEY'RE PANICKING ๐ฅ
๐คฌ๐ฅ๏ธ Jimmy Dore and Garland Nixon break down how the AI math isn't mathin'.
Data centers are bankrupting their own customers. Here's why:
Cloud AI = Corporate AI. Rent your brain back at 1000x markup. Tokens add up fast โ faster than employee salaries. Scale up? The bill eats you alive.
Local AI = Independent AI. A $250 Nvidia card in your closet runs offline storage and private apps cheaper and better. No subscriptions. No surveillance. No scam.
But that doesn't make oligarchs trillions, does it?
Surprise โ it's another wealth transfer. Trillions to a handful of companies who can't deliver what they sold us.
THE LIE:
For two years: "AI will slash payroll! Replace workers! Unleash productivity!"
Wall Street ate it up. Stocks pumped. Workers got canned. Execs cashed out.
THE REALITY:
Every. Query. Costs. Money.
Code reviews. "Helpful" suggestions. Background agents.
Multiply across thousands of employees making millions of requests.
The bill looks less like software and more like a ransom note.
THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW:
Cloud = handing your clients, secrets, and liabilities to a server farm that data-mines and resells everything.
Why would any business want that?
Because they rigged the game. Locked the infrastructure. Same five companies own every exit.
THE DATA CENTERS AREN'T FOR "BETTER AI."
They're for SURVEILLANCE.
Every prompt logged. Every conversation analyzed. You โ legible, trackable, replaceable.
THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY:
They spent decades saying labor was "the problem."
Now compute is the problem.
More AI adoption = more tokens burned = bigger bills = harder to justify the layoffs.
That's not disruption. That's a bait-and-switch.
WHO PAYS? WHO PROFITS?
Workers lose jobs. Communities crumble. Investors lose.
The executives who sold this fairy tale? Already cashed out.
We've seen this movie:
๐ Housing bubble โ "Everyone gets rich!"
๐ Globalization โ "Endless prosperity!"
๐ฐ Zero rates โ "Permanent growth!"
๐ฃ Neo-liberal order โ "Peace through hegemony!"
Now: ๐ค AI โ "It'll solve everything!"
Same scam. Different logo.
THE QUESTION THEY CAN'T ANSWER:
If AI is cheaper than humans...
WHY IS EVERY COMPANY PANICKING ABOUT AI COSTS?
Why throttle usage? Why "unlimited" plans getting limits? Why hire "AI efficiency consultants" after firing half the staff?
BECAUSE THE MATH DOESN'T MATH.
THE OFFLINE REBELLION:
While they build billion-dollar surveillance palaces, the real solution sits on a shelf:
$250 machine
Private storage
Your data stays YOURS
No subscription. No surveillance.
Independent computing = independent people.
And independent people are harder to milk.
FINAL THOUGHT:
When your "cost-saving technology" generates bills rivaling the payroll it replaced...
That's not a revolution. That's a warning sign.
The bubble is leaking. The execs are exiting. You're holding the bag.
Again.
@jimmy_dore@GarlandNixon
The real reason for the WEF's obsession with digital IDs and CBDCs.
"The biggest fear that the World Economic Forum has is that there are going to be people that will not comply."
AI data centers will use up enough clean water for 1.3 billion people by the year 2030 according to a United Nations report.
We CAN live without data centers, we CAN'T live without clean water.
It's happening.
The mainstream media is now finally beginning to report on what happened to Henry Nowak.
Today I've seen it on both Swedish and Norwegian news.
They can't hide it anymore because of X.
The truth is coming out.
Pay Attention Australia ๐ฆ๐บ
We havenโt heard much on this - theyโre building them by stealth.
Like everything else this Labor government does.
@TruthFairy131 This is why I started my Virtual Assistant business in 2008! I wasnโt prepared to outsource raising my 3 children - and now they thank me for it ๐๐ปโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
If we donโt start talking about these data centers nowโฆ we lose.
Iโm dead serious.
Water. ๐ง
Energy. โก๏ธ
Land. ๐
This is bigger than people realize.
The 350-hectare hub, the largest ever publicly proposed in Australia would require more electricity than the total output of Victoriaโs largest coal-fired power station.
That raises a critical question: how exactly do we intend to supply this level of reliable power while also managing the projectโs substantial noise, water consumption, and overall environmental impact?
Before we green-light projects of this scale, we need honest answers and transparency.