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1 month agoI wouldn’t say “useful” but the military industrial complex does at least employ actual people to create actual things, where as an AI data center just siphons off the resources of an area and creates no jobs. This is avoiding any moral judgement on weapons production, simply saying that the energy that goes into it is creating an actual product.
None of the Gulf states are able to drill for oil, and even if they could they wouldn’t be able to ship it out. Look at a map of where all the middle east oil fields are