It’s also far from clear that the tech industry will prove to be as hungry for fossil fuel power as some predict. First, advances in AI technology could drive energy consumption down. Concerns are emerging that the technology may not fully live up to the hype, at least from investors’ standpoints, with Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai telling a Hong Kong investment summit in March that data construction may have already reached “the beginning of some kind of bubble.” Plus, the Trump tariffs have injected extraordinary levels of uncertainty into global markets, leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.
leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.
AI hype could certainly be derailed if you need to start an independent baseless hype in dozens of separate countries instead of just having the hype as a cultural export of the US.
Well, shit. But at least there’s this:
AI hype could certainly be derailed if you need to start an independent baseless hype in dozens of separate countries instead of just having the hype as a cultural export of the US.
It doesn’t even have to be a derailed boom, but simply