Submitted By: dwieb1@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
This morning’s local news reported efforts underway to take advantage of our state by privileged tech companies who are consumed by their addiction to greed.
OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle (yes, the same company that screwed our state with the failed “Cover Oregon” website) want to use us in their pursuit of ever more profits. And they don’t care a whit about us or the State of Oregon. They want cheap power to run AI data centers that will violate our privacy and drive up our electrical bills.
Think AI is good for us? Not the way tech companies are scrambling to use it, and that would create the majority of demand for AI. Here’s a good article on ways that AI can actually help society:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/21/ai-jobs-human-work-relationship-tech
Don’t let greedy tech companies use and abuse our state.
-Dave