Karen Hao

And the reason why I'm critical of these companies is that they are creating technologies in a way that creates the haves and have-nots in extreme form that we have.

It's exacerbating the inequality that we already see in the world.

Like the people who have things will have way more riches.

They'll have way more free time.

They'll be allowed to be more human.

But the people who don't have things are...

being squeezed even more.

And it's not just from a work perspective.

I mean, I talk in my book also about the environmental and public health crisis that these companies have created, where they are building these colossal supercomputer facilities that

And in communities all around the world.

And they specifically pick some of the most vulnerable communities.

We're sitting in Texas right now.

OpenAI's largest, one of its largest data center projects is being built in Abilene, Texas as part of the Stargate initiative, which was an effort announced at the beginning of Trump's second administration to spend $500 billion on AI computing infrastructure projects.

This facility consumes, when it's finished, will consume more than a gigawatt of power, which is over 20%.

Yeah.

Over 20%.

So this is actually a little bit inaccurate now.

This was something that circulated online for a while, but there's updated numbers.

So this is not the Abilene, Texas one.

This is a meta facility.