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Upvoting your own material is a Michael Scott thing to do.

It's gonna be shaky anyway.

Tell us, I don't know. All I know is that when a data center will require more water than the environment can provide, there will be conflicts for water, and the people living around will protest. And the most active of them will pull the plug at night or funny stuff like that. Data centers are fragile things.

There is only one metric for a social network, the number of users.

Youtube channel? subscribers

Twitch channel? subscribers

Twitter? Followers

That's about who gathers the most people, end of the line. If an instance managed to become a pole of gravity then it will be worth money.

And before you tell me that you can subscribe to a different instance, well, you can also subscribe to a different social network.

but fine, we disagree.

Wait for more tools and instances, and the leaders will emerge.

They gain nothing from buying an instance. Users don't matter. They're just as reachable as another federated instance.

ok, cool.

remember how the lemmy.ml admin asked that people join other instances.

lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead

People want to be with people, if you don't get that then you don't get social networks.

Last time I checked, they gathered middle of last year to take measures for sparing water, but they eventually decided to do nothing, and instead they let the emergency measures trigger in as the level of the water got lower and reached a point of alert at the end of last year.

Whatever the new emergency measures are, they refused to apply those themselves at the time and preferred to let the automatic mechanism do it for them. They were probably afraid to be the ones who bring the bad news to their farmers. It would be political suicide. That's only speculation of course.

They should start a national home insurance and compete with the private companies.

This won't work. Take any US state that is not too much affected, and tell them that now they have to pay a premium to insure the people of Florida. They will never do it.

I'm serious when I say that global warming and the lack of resources will break both the USA and China, and probably the EU too. The regions of those countries will be unwilling to pay for the others. Sweden won't pay forever for Spain, same in the respective regions of the USA and China. Do you really see these agglomerate of people supporting each others? I don't. The lack of food will have devastating effect on geopolitics.

We are leaving a period of prosperity and it's gonna shake a lot.

I still remember this guy from Florida in the show of Bill Maher, telling him that global warming was fake, that he could see from his house in Florida that the sea level wasn't rising. I remember him holding Bill by the arm telling him "trust me, it's all fake". Dunno if he was a governor or somethin'. If someone remember the episode, please post it.

What this clown did not understand is that the problem is not the sea level reaching your house, it's the risk seen by the insurance company. Any climatic event added to a higher sea level and boom, your house is flooded, even if 3 days later the event is gone and the sea isn't in your house anymore. It will happen every year, become a systemic risk and you won't be insured anymore. Even if your house is dry 350 days a year and only wet 15 days a year. Even if the sea level is below your house.

It has some similarities to Brexit. During Brexit a lot of british people living in Spain believed that they would not be affected by Brexit and that they would be able to keep living in Spain. Until they received a letter from the government telling them they had to leave.

It's all virtual until the administrative machine start to walk over you. In their case it's a letter from the insurance. It's gonna happen everywhere.

Now that the insurance have lifted the taboo of stopping insuring people for climatic reason you will see more of those action everywhere. The region around the lake Mead (Arizona, Nevada, California) will become really funky in term of war for water.

And of course the fees induced by higher premium of crops insurance will be added to the price of food. Everybody lose.

The economic prosperity came bundled with an ecological debt, provoked by the overusage of oil. Oil is cheap and makes everything cheap. Remove oil and everything increase in price. The "prosperity" is behind us now. I don't see how an AI described above would bring in term of prosperity.

There is a debate in France about the morality of acting against the law when it comes to protesting against global warming. And a datacenter is in the jurisdiction of the people fighting against global warming.

We should not take order for granted. Keep in mind that the temperature will ramp up slowly each year, destroying our environment a little bit more each year. When the time of sacrifice will come I bet that the AI will be very high on the list.

You miss-represent the fediverse. Users aren't locked in. If someone buys one instance and you don't like it, you move.

Maybe you will but people in their majority won't do that. It's too much operations. Also they might not even be aware of the transfer. Plus if an instance offers good services there might be a technological price to pay for leaving, like leaving instagram. All instances are not equal, specially if there are more interfaces in preparation.