"We are becoming ever more immersed in a world of unreality, that has now more or less completely taken over our lives. And much of what we know. Our digital world; the world in which most of our economy, our culture, our work, our personal-and increasingly, our intimate-lives now reside, is becoming ever more detached from our physical and embodied lived experience. AI is a natural evolution of that process, and of course also a massive accelerant of it."
"In order to maintain and extend this all-immersive experience of unreality, tech companies are locked into an arms race to build gargantuan data centers with increasingly powerful "compute," OpenAI's newly opened "Stargate" data center will eventually require five gigawatts of electricity, about the same as New York City, and six million metric tonnes of water a day, while being built, like many other data centers, in an area of acute water stress."
AI-generated media can be indistinguishable from human-created content, with listeners unaware when algorithmic music plays at social gatherings. Digital environments increasingly host economy, culture, work, and intimate life, detaching experience from physical embodiment. AI accelerates the shift toward an immersive unreality and blurs boundaries between virtual and physical worlds. Tech companies compete to build ever-larger data centers to supply required compute power. Those facilities consume massive electricity and water resources. OpenAI's Stargate data center exemplifies the scale, with projected five gigawatts of power and six million metric tonnes of water daily, often sited in water-stressed regions.
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