MTS@MTSlive4h ago

Bright AI Future founder @OfficialBBrooks says even curing cancer won’t fix AI’s image problem if Silicon Valley still doesn’t understand why a $30 higher electricity bill is a big deal: "I honestly think tech dropped the ball on this. I am very much against the doomerism talk. But the rest of us dropped the ball. We didn't get out there in the communities early enough." "It's very difficult for Silicon Valley to even realize the gravity of these conversations. The people that I talk to, if their electricity bill goes up by $30 a month, that's a huge thing to them." "They hear on TV or in these political ads now that data centers are gonna increase their electricity bills, use up the water, destroy the environment. And nobody's been out there having the other side of that convo." "I've got friends at the frontier labs. I've spoken with them ad nauseam about this for months. We've really gotta get people out into these communities. And unfortunately that hasn't happened yet."