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Gerry McGovern

  • Contributor and Writer, World Wide Waste, CMSWire
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Racing For Clicks On TikTok: "So much blood, violence and misery this Big Tech empire has been built on"

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By Gerry McGovern
| Hot Press Verified
In the early hours of an Irish morning, five young men raced their €1,000 BMW up the wrong side of a motorway. They crashed into a car in which three young women and a child were travelling. The five young men died. The women and child were seriously injured. It was social media Russian Roulette. A type of murder suicide daring, admired by so many men. On a planetary scale, men are racing their engines up the wrong side of the highway to hell. Accelerating. Accelerating. Accelerating.
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Big Tech water demand is exploding – and the hotter the climate gets, the greater that demand becomes

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By Gerry McGovern
| Hot Press Verified
Imagine something that hardly existed in 2020, that in 2025 consumed the water of 600 million people, that in 2030 will consume the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion. Now, that’s growth! That’s what seem to excite the politicians of the Growth Death Cult. That’s why the Irish government loves and adores AI – because in a world of lagging growth, AI is a super-fuelled growth success story.
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La revolución de los centros de datos de IA consume la energía, el agua y los materiales del mundo

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By Gerry McGovern, Sue Brandford
| Rebelion
Fuentes: 15-15-15 Están apareciendo centros de datos por toda América Latina tropical, el sudeste asiático, Indonesia y África. Sin embargo, estas instalaciones suelen ser muy diferentes a las del pasado reciente. Los centros de datos avanzados de hoy en día se construyen para proporcionar capacidad informática de inteligencia artificial (IA) a las grandes empresas tecnológicas como Microsoft, Google y Amazon.
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