AI boom lifts Swiss suppliers
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AI data centers are drawing scrutiny in U.S. election debates and financial markets, while Swiss technology suppliers stand to benefit from the infrastructure boom.
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
This chart about data center construction blew my mind. Watch.
October 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This chart about data center construction blew my mind. Watch.
And even that fails to consider the impact of my choice to engage with and even partially endorse AI tools. My main goal is to get starry-eyed "AI for everyone" institutions to back-the-F-up.
October 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
And even that fails to consider the impact of my choice to engage with and even partially endorse AI tools. My main goal is to get starry-eyed "AI for everyone" institutions to back-the-F-up.
Reposted by David Darmofal
Republican voters say they will vote for Democrats because of data centers:
"My entire community is going to break rank. We've had enough."
"My entire community is going to break rank. We've had enough."
October 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Republican voters say they will vote for Democrats because of data centers:
"My entire community is going to break rank. We've had enough."
"My entire community is going to break rank. We've had enough."
Reposted by Peter Holmes, Albert Weale
this could be a big deal:
“Investors are losing confidence that revenues from AI boom will be sufficient to support the vast debt piles financing data centres, pushing bonds backing some of the largest US infrastructure projects into increasingly stressed territory.”
www.ft.com/content/678b...
“Investors are losing confidence that revenues from AI boom will be sufficient to support the vast debt piles financing data centres, pushing bonds backing some of the largest US infrastructure projects into increasingly stressed territory.”
www.ft.com/content/678b...
Investors dump data centre bonds as AI borrowers face ‘Darwin moment’
Debt issued by AI infrastructure providers and neocloud companies such as CoreWeave has sunk to increasingly stressed levels
www.ft.com
October 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
this could be a big deal:
“Investors are losing confidence that revenues from AI boom will be sufficient to support the vast debt piles financing data centres, pushing bonds backing some of the largest US infrastructure projects into increasingly stressed territory.”
www.ft.com/content/678b...
“Investors are losing confidence that revenues from AI boom will be sufficient to support the vast debt piles financing data centres, pushing bonds backing some of the largest US infrastructure projects into increasingly stressed territory.”
www.ft.com/content/678b...
This thought experiment illustrates the core problem of the last three decades of Silicon Valley: powerful tech harnessed by extraordinarily reductive and banal thinking about the actual problems facing humanity. An endless parade of rewarding reflexive action on half-baked wouldn't-it-be-cool-ifs
It also seems obvious that past the hypothetical tipping point on AI assistant use, firms in the many underregulated sectors of the economy will take advantage of agentic brittleness and vulnerabilities and the AI companies will simply have added another layer of cost, manipulation, and dysfunction
Humans need friction. So does the economy. Wrote about Musing Ourselves to Death & what a future where the internet transforms into a place for AI assistants to perfect commerce. Spoiler: We talked to some smart ppl & it would be chaos! w/ @matteowong.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
October 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This thought experiment illustrates the core problem of the last three decades of Silicon Valley: powerful tech harnessed by extraordinarily reductive and banal thinking about the actual problems facing humanity. An endless parade of rewarding reflexive action on half-baked wouldn't-it-be-cool-ifs
by Grady Booch
Granting rights to an AI is ludicrous. Among other things, accountability and responsibility have no meaning to any such entity.
this basically amounts to giving corporations more rights and power... we cover this very argument in this 2024 paper
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
October 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Granting rights to an AI is ludicrous. Among other things, accountability and responsibility have no meaning to any such entity.
Reposted by Fabián Muniesa
“We have seen the tech companies that, back in 2019, 2020, wanted us to see them as climate leaders, completely throw their targets out the window in order to pursue generative AI and this data center buildout.” Some data centers have even built “on-site gas plants.”
Regulation Should Target AI’s Current Harms, Not Superintelligence Possibilities
A mix of science fiction and delusion distracts from the real harms that we’re seeing, says tech journalist Paris Marx.
buff.ly
October 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
“We have seen the tech companies that, back in 2019, 2020, wanted us to see them as climate leaders, completely throw their targets out the window in order to pursue generative AI and this data center buildout.” Some data centers have even built “on-site gas plants.”
Seems even the AI boosters are now starting to wake up! AI is the world's biggest lose-lose bet (and let's not even mention the environmental toll)!: www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
How my son showed me AI is now the world’s biggest lose-lose bet
If artificial intelligence succeeds, humanity loses out as it takes away thinking from a younger generation. If it doesn’t triumph, investors are on the hook.
www.afr.com
October 16, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Seems even the AI boosters are now starting to wake up! AI is the world's biggest lose-lose bet (and let's not even mention the environmental toll)!: www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
And at networking events like www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/ev...
EA Global: New York City 2026 | Effective Altruism
www.effectivealtruism.org
October 16, 2026 at 4:29 AM
And at networking events like www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/ev...
by Ian Bremmer
china closing the gap w/ american ai models
the future increasingly looks like a world where china leads in ai models, the united states leads in semiconductors. messy…
the future increasingly looks like a world where china leads in ai models, the united states leads in semiconductors. messy…
October 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
china closing the gap w/ american ai models
the future increasingly looks like a world where china leads in ai models, the united states leads in semiconductors. messy…
the future increasingly looks like a world where china leads in ai models, the united states leads in semiconductors. messy…
... by so-called neocloud companies — of which the best known is Nvidia-backed CoreWeave — which have been the most aggressive in how they finance their AI build-out."
#economy #markets #bonds #DataCentres
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October 15, 2026 at 7:32 PM
... by so-called neocloud companies — of which the best known is Nvidia-backed CoreWeave — which have been the most aggressive in how they finance their AI build-out."
#economy #markets #bonds #DataCentres
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