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aussie.zone

There is no “AI boom”, just the usual suspects trying to scam, rort, and rip off the Australian Government, Australian Businesses and the Australian Public.

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aussie.zone

The governments, except for Greens and independents, are all for it. They can sell this as us being a TecHnOLogY hUb and the lobby has already been, paid and gone.

The two majors want these, by majority. Some businesses will be on board as well.

It’s the public that will be fucked over, these things offer us nothing good at all. There’s not a thing we need them for.

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lemy.lol

How typical is it that we would start looking at standing these data centers up now they are running up against regulatory resistance in more progressive parts of the world.

Hey look New York state have started banning new builds, sounds like our time to start.

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Very typical and it’s disappointing. We knew they would though, it’s the lucky country isn’t it and both majors are arsekissers to the US and its hierarchy.

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aussie.zone

As a great man once said, Australia is at the Arse end of the world.

We can’t act as a global technology hub because we don’t have enough bandwidth.

We can’t act as a data processing hub because we don’t have the;

  • water
  • electricity
  • hardware
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Well, they’re being built here so whether the great man is right or not, it isn’t stopping our lucky country politicians from trying to pull it on

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