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Mike Adams discusses concerns about the global build-out of data centers and presents a multi-part theory about their purpose and implications. He notes that a tweet he posted went viral, drawing responses from figures like Jimmy Dore and Rizwan Virk. He frames his talk as a theory, not a confirmed prediction, and plans to cover it in two parts.
Key data and observations
- There are about 11,000 existing data centers worldwide. The map and graphics Adams shares focus on 3,000 new or planned/construction sites, showing locations, size, power use, water use, land area, and investment needs.
- In Piketon, Ohio, and other U.S. sites (including multiple facilities in Ohio and Texas), as well as Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, Tokyo, Malaysia, and other locations, there are large data centers under construction or announced. The lines in the AI-generated map may mis-point geographically, but the cities and nations listed are accurate.
- The aggregate planned/under-construction capacity projects to about 190 gigawatts of power draw once completed.
- The projected annual power consumption for these new centers would exceed 1,200 terawatt-hours per year, which Adams compares to about 10% of all power produced by China.
- The centers would occupy over 1,000 square kilometers and use about 15+ billion liters of water per year, with some water potentially drawn from neighborhoods or households.
Revenue and purpose questions
- Adams argues there is not enough AI business, web hosting, data storage, or overall demand to justify the scale of the investment, implying the revenue model may be inadequate to pay back these projects.
- He contrasts various high-profile tech figures—Tesla, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg—suggesting that the motives behind these data center buildups extend beyond serving immediate consumer compute needs, hinting at broader or longer-term strategic aims.
Foundational ideas about AI and intelligence
- He cites Jan LeCun (referenced as a leading AI researcher) arguing that the current structure of large language models (LLMs) is a dead end for achieving AGI or superintelligence due to gaps in physical-world understanding, memory, and long-term planning. Memory is said to be improving with newer context-handling approaches, but physical-world understanding and planning are highlighted as critical gaps.
- LeCun’s idea mentioned is the development of world models and JEPPA architectures that learn from sensory inputs to understand and interact with the physical environment, rather than solely processing language statistics.
- Adams suggests that the only viable path to practical superintelligence is to train AI systems in simulated three-dimensional worlds, where physics, gravity, time, light, touch, and other sensory inputs are experienced. He argues that simulated worlds can run at speeds far faster than the real world, limited only by compute and hardware bandwidth.
- He mentions NVIDIA’s announced world simulator for training robots as an example of three-dimensional world simulations used for reinforcement learning and rapid iteration.
- The concept of digital worlds is tied to the idea of digital evolution or Darwinism: billions of parallel simulated worlds could nurture AI entities that grow and potentially be summoned into our three-dimensional reality. He notes that a simulation-based approach could produce agents whose capabilities enable real-world deployment after learning in fast, rich simulations.
- Adams discusses practical applications of three-dimensional simulations beyond AI self-improvement, including autonomous vehicle testing (synthetic data), manufacturing and robotics on factory floors, military scenario planning, surgical robotics, and pilot training. He emphasizes that the more realistic the simulation, the more reliable the results for real-world tasks and decisions.
- He invokes the simulation hypothesis, suggesting a link between building simulated worlds and the possibility that our own reality could be a simulation. He plans to address evidence for the simulation hypothesis in part two, along with how simulated beings might be “summoned” into our world.
Closing
- Adams signals a two-part structure, with Part 1 covering data center build-out, AI constructs, and the simulation framework; Part 2 promising to address the simulation hypothesis with evidence and the idea of summoning advanced AI from simulations into the real world.
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