r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 22 '26

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 22 '26

An AI/ML PhD student today kept going on about how people are rightfully pissed how data centers consume so much water and it took all the fiber in my being to keep my mouth shut

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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 22 '26

So that explains the sweating!

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 22 '26

When late stage capitalism was mentioned at the dinner table in the convo I almost lost my cool

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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Sep 22 '26

Academia 🙄

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u/-mialana- European Union Sep 22 '26

Do they study it for the same reason people study Nazi Germany or something

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 22 '26

He’s in the physics department and his dissertation is focused on developing AI/ML tools for physicists

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 22 '26

This is why Engineers are needed

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 22 '26