@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green "In the United States, nearly 5,000 data centres are either under construction or in planning stages, driven by growing demands for artificial intelligence." Yet there are adverts all over pushing AI on us, and indeed AI being built into every application whether anybody wants it or not - and despite the evidence that most don't want it at all. It's a perfect allegory of how capitalism works now: create demand through marketing, then claim we must use up the earth's resources to meet that demand.