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Net Zero vs AI: Starmer Hasn’t Worked Out That The U.K. Can’t Be a ‘Superpower’ in Both Climate and Computing

by Ben Pile
16 January 2025 7:00 AM

This week, a grateful country learned from our Glorious Leader that the U.K. was to be not just one superpower, but two. At an event at University College London on Monday, Keir Starmer unveiled his plans for making Britain an “artificial intelligence superpower”. According to Reuters, this includes promises “to take a pro-innovation approach to regulation, make public data available to researchers and create zones for data centres”. The problem with this plan, however, is obvious to anyone who knows anything about AI and who has sufficient memory to recall Starmer’s other promise: to make Britain a “clean energy superpower” by 2030.

As has been widely discussed, Britain industrial energy prices are now among the highest in the developed world. This is a problem for AI because, unlike most computing tasks, it is energy intensive, better thought of as an industrial process. AI is not an application that runs easily on a laptop. And this is because AI does not typically run on normal microprocessors, such as the CPUs that sit at the centre of powerful desktop workstations, but on the graphics processors known as GPUs that enable 3D games, among other things. In such an application, the CPU pushes the work of rendering graphics to the GPU, leaving the CPU free for other, less intense tasks.


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Monro
Monro
4 years ago

This is an absolute disgrace, a serious charge which requires an explanation to Parliament.

But it is pretty clear what so many democratic socialist governments across the world have been up to.

‘…..using psychological remoulding as a tactic for political hegemony’

After all, it is not as though this kind of power grab hasn’t happened before:

‘……revolutionary ideals had to be protected from weeds of doubt by vigorous assertion and mass coercion…….people were attached to the new order primarily through terror or emotional appeal’

https://jsis.washington.edu/ellisoncenter/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/05/dome_REECASNW.pdf

The title of this referenced article?

‘A Timid Flock: Investigating Propaganda Under Stalin’

Plus ca change……..

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Monro

The title of another article :

“Investigating the right-wing free market theology’s tendency to fascism”

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Fascism is inherently MARXIST.

That fascism is right wing is the biggest lie the left ever told, and they’ve told some whopping lies.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

“Fascism is inherently MARXIST.”

I know people can’t necessarily being incredibly thick and deluded.

But it does seem odd to want to advertise the fact 🙂

Do try to find out what terms vaguely mean.

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

100% correct. The word ‘fascism’ derives from ‘fasces’, latin for bundle, so collectivism.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Monro

Oh!!! The brightness of political and linguistic insight shines from the goldfish bowl!

Just go and preach your irrelevant and nonsensical obsessions elsewhere, and leave this site for intelligent discussion and information.

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

‘…leave this site for intelligent discussion and information’

But not from you, as usual. How very Cummings/Johnsonian……

You should be in the cabinet…

Far better to stay there out of the sun unless you have any useful contribution to make.

Silly vapours do you no credit.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Monro

Fascism
“Everything inside the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state.”
Mussolini.

Sounds a tad hostile to free exchange, markets, private treatment in fact everything that creates wealth.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Well – that’s an exercise of a small brain, using ‘Mussolini’ and ‘state’ as cues to defy logic.

In actuality, (and factually) the platform for this outbreak of totalitarianism has more to do with Hayek’s with Marx. It’s a creature of unregulated neoliberal global capitalism, not some vague ‘socialist’ conspiracy – i.e an infection from the bug-eyed right rather than the cross-eyed left.

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

‘…..unregulated neoliberal global capitalism’

Loving the humour.

Here’s some bedtime reading:

‘In the preface to The Limits of the Market, Paul De Grauwe, an economics professor at the London School of Economics, begins with two basic premises: first, that a centrally planned economy does not work; second, that pure market systems do not exist anywhere.’

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/winter-2018/limits-market-pendulum-between-government-market-paul-de-grauwe

‘Rather than augmenting private governance, government is often the primary obstacle. Government often crowds out, restricts, or co-opts providers of private governance and forces them to pursue government’s objectives. In some markets the government imposes rules and regulations that providers of private governance would have adopted on their own. Commonly, however, government imposes rules and regulations with little regard for whether they actually benefit market participants. Like price controls that interfere with supply and demand equilibration, government rules and regulations interfere with the searches for beneficial rules and regulations by providers of private governance.’

‘Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life’
Edward Peter Stringham

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Thought that might get the odd goldfish with little brain but big mouth to bite 🙂

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
4 years ago

It was never the government’s intention to save people from dying.

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awildgoose
awildgoose
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

A cynical person might wonder if the old and infirm were intentionally targeted to ease the burden on the pension and social security systems.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  awildgoose

Hmm, I’m dubious about that – consider the cost of £400 billion and counting! The old and infirm are just a small collateral ‘benefit’, CONTROL is the real target.

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
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Everyome who dies of cancer DIDN’T die of covid. Which is good.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Oh well, if it was only cancer they were threatened with.
Only a slow, agonising death from a disease that can strike at any age.
Not as if it was something serious, like the covvisniffle.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

I wonder just how many were killed by the systemic failure of N”H”S?

The worst thing was so many could not even get better by going private as the bureaucrats had co-opted private hospitals and done nowt with them.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

“the systemic failure of N”H”S”

No. It’s the systemic failure of the Tory Party in government, not the NHS.

… and the idea that private provision is somehow naturally better is ludicrous to anyone who’s seen both in action. Pure delusion.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

I’ve endured both the extortion-funded ration of treatment and the exceptional service, care and attention I’ve had when I paid.

You are frankly barking if you think the NHS is good for anything except lying about how many people its managed to put 6 feet under.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

You are talking absolute crap.

I’ve had a massive amount of NHS treatment in the last decade. Not uniformly perfect – but exceptionally good in the main. A far better sample than your doctrinal pronouncements.

Neighbour : two private assaults on spinal injury from the private sector before the NHS put it right.

The latter not a good random sample – but certainly enough to put to bed any simplistic notions about the natural superiority of private provision.

Sorry – Covmaniacs/’Free’ market shut-eyed obsessives/Tooting Trots and SWP etc. : they’re all bug-eyed nonsense gabblers with more in common with each other than rational thinkers.

Perhaps the answer is for obsessives here to get together with their soul-mates on Skwawkbox and just waste their mutual time on shouting bug-eyed nonsense at each other.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Aha you must’ve got some healthy person to parasite upon.

After all those who look after their health pay more than twice for their inadequate ration of treatment. First for their own, then for the malingerer, then because the NHS subsidises and thus encourages health failure the restrictions on choice because the feckless externalise their poor choices on the healthy.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The duggies still snapping in fury at reality.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
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Hey up! The duggies without brain getting excited again! 🙂

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
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… and again.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The goldfish mouths still opening and closing to order as they defend the coup by Johnson and his right-wing mates 🙂

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Go see a doctor about your spluttering over the keyboard when you are allowed to by the health bureaucracy.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

I think you’ve now proved my point sufficiently re. unintelligent beating of the battered drums of non-think.

BTW – Being a performing twat is not really a good look for responding convincingly to evidence that doesn’t suit your limited preconceptions.

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charleyfarley
charleyfarley
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Hi, Rick. Please give it a rest.

If someone is holding a gun to my head while stealing my wallet, my feelings towards him are unlikely to be influenced by his voting intentions.

I suggest we postpone discussions about the political genesis of the covid fraud while we work on recovering our freedom.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

The dictatorships propaganda unit is saying a winter respiratory illness will be rampant on mid summers day

Of course it will

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wendy
wendy
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

oh but wait two weeks!!!

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

I find it incredible that no one in this government could have foreseen the impact that enforcing a national lockdown along with a campaign of endless psychological fear-driven propaganda would have on public behaviour whereby those with other serious medical symtoms requiring early treatments for diseases that are far more fatal than covid19 were either too scared to leave their homes, to afraid to go to hospital or even unable get a doctors appointment because of the covid paranoia that was deliberately whipped-up by this government to ensure public compliance.

This was criminal negligence on a massive scale.

Heads must roll for this – prosecutions and jail sentences..

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
4 years ago

How people can be so dumb to think that you can concentrate all of your resources into one fairly insignificant illness, then claim that you’ve “saved” lives baffles me.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

British Citizen Entrance Exam 2021

Question One

If the British were robbed of their liberty would they

a Buy a dog
b Buy a Volkswagen camper van
c Vote for their tormentors
d All of the above

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

e Blame a left wing conspiracy for the actions of a government of the right.

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Ossettian
Ossettian
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The Conservatives aren’t in power in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, are they?

And the idea that this government is “of the right” is just ludicrous: they have no policies or principles that I can support, which is why for the first time ever in a GE I didn’t vote for them at the last one.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Ossettian

“And the idea that this government is “of the right” is just ludicrous: they have no policies that I can support,”

That only proves how weird and solipsistic some of the right has become in their fantasy land of loony political definition. Totally detached from reality.

I have been – I confess – taking the piss out of this sort of loopy detachment from reality and cult of denial (not difficult).

But there is a point behind it which isn’t funny. The association of lockdown scepticism with the shit-for-brains loony right simply opens the door to satire and dismissal. It simply does the job of 77th Brigade without them doing anything, as ludicrous notions are used to nullify opposition.

Meanwhile, the real political aims of the establishment – embracing both Tories and the captured non-opposition walk away scot-free with their fabrication and the imposition of a police state.

It is continually manufacturing grist for the Covid mill – not opposition, and making it harder for the rational case to get through when such utter bollocks is easily cited by the Covid zealots, and used to deter potential allies.

Playground stuff – not great intelligence!

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Nobody2021
Nobody2021
4 years ago

Why do people need studies to make them believe what they can see for themselves is true?

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