Within this system, our country plays a crucial and disproportionate role: a dense network of data centres and server farms has been built around Dublin
'The requirements for cooling AI server towers are such that for every 100 words of text generated by ChatGPT, three litres of water are consumed.' Photograph: Jim Wilson/New York Times, “is indistinguishable from magic”. This sentence — which Clarke himself somewhat grandly billed as Clarke’s Third Law — feels intuitively, and surprisingly, true.
I have no idea what on earth is going on in there, in the dark, occult interior of that strange machine. It feels, in the Arthur C Clarke sense, like a kind of magic— and instantly deliver a more-or-less serviceable text in response, I would be at a total loss. I have no idea what on earth is going on in there, in the dark, occult interior of that strange machine. It feels, in the Arthur C Clarke sense, like a kind of magic.
Consider the term that contains, in its vast and vaporous embrace, so much of how we think about our current technologies: “the Cloud”. It implies a great floating mass, as light and clean and insubstantial as the air itself. In her brilliant book Atlas of AI, the scholar Kate Crawford — one of a handful of indispensable contemporary thinkers about our technological moment — writes about the myth of clean tech and how it is sustained by such language.
A huge amount of wealth is, of course, generated by, or channelled through, these data centres; in the economic style to which we have become accustomed, however, very little of it winds up in the pockets of people living in this country
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