Happy Pride, from birds found in Southeast Asia! 🏳️🌈✨
These are the Red-naped Trogon, Orange-bellied Flowerpecker, Black-naped Oriole, Bar-bellied Pitta, Malaysian Blue Flycatcher & Purple Heron.
" Electricity demand in Peninsular Malaysia rose 11.5% year-on-year in April"
What is the thing that booming & mushrooming in semenanjung recently? Data Centres.
50MW data centre uses electricity= 22,000 households - BNM Report
Then you wonder why energy demand at its highest.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
The revealing thing about the MB's answer re lack of land for a public hopsital, is that they never planned for the needs of the population.
Condo after condo built for people to live in, but no planning for the healthcare needs of these people?
Why do we lack clear, consultative processes for this kind of development in KL? Are lands in the city just for corporate & capitalist expansions?
Stop investing in malls & data centres. Start investing in public facilities & green spaces that benefit the people’s wellbeing.
Selangor people especially those in Petaling Jaya are not angry enough with this.
This data centre took the land and seized public hospital that could be built on top of it from you.
This data centre soon will seize the supply of your water and energy from the current capacity.
Been thinking about our resistance to local government elections, and I think what's not really appreciated is the possible private sector resistance.
You have developers functionally owning entire townships, they aren't going to give up power to the people living there.