AI's Hidden War: Energy, Data, and Global Conflict

and I want to sort of bridge these two topics, the AI and then the war that's happening, in data centers. And the the fact that data centers and their electricity requirement has basically upended the whole climate change agenda and like the world economy is is sort of being reorganized around the sudden realization, oh, we need a ton of energy to run these AI uh databases. And then, of course, Iran has been targeting like Amazon databases. AI is having impacts on the world in ways that that are beyond just, you know, the applications. It's like changing the the fundamental economy and and war and everything. How does uh how do you interpret all of this going on? Well, yeah, uh so AI has been weaponized. Of course, if you watch the recent uh curfuffle between Anthropic and the Pentagon, you saw that, and uh I believe Anthropic made the right choice on this by saying, no, we don't want AI to be used for autonomous killbot weapons and mass surveillance efficiencies. But of course, Elon Musk had no problem with that. He said, yeah, use it for all that stuff and more. And OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, ...