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been saying that was the goal for over a decade.
AI data centers become "personal cloud PC centers" when the AI bubble pops..
I was gonna say the government will just use it to surveil you, but realised that a "personal cloud PC center" is essentially the same thing except for the branding change (gov. vs big tech).
And you gotta keep in mind that big tech wants to be the government
Makes it so much easier for the government to monitor one data center instead of a million separate computers.
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