Or perhaps they aren't drowning in propaganda (that they themselves promote in the West), and are happily reaping the rewards of cheap coal and energy production.
By the way, the round trip of: Sell and export your coal to manufacturers that burn that coal to produce electronic goods that produce energy, then buy that energy technology to power your own infrastructure, is certainly not cheaper than just burning the coal you mined yourself for your energy production.
Cheaper (ergo, more profitable) for the mining companies, yes. That's about it though.
They're going to regret this one when WW3 kicks off over the next year or three.
Good luck repairing your renewable energy infrastructure if you're hit by one of many different classes of attacks.
Coal and coal-burning energy production is an insurance policy, at the very least.
Countries have been getting rid of their oil refineries as well, and now look what is happening to those countries, given the Iran situation. Their price of fuel is skyrocketing, their reserves are dwindling, and panic is setting in. Hope is not a strategy.
Relying on third party supply chains for key infrastructure that would result in mass casualty if it were to vanish, is not intelligent. It's a vulnerability.
A distributed power grid made out of PV panels, windmills, and local energy stores is far more resilient during armed conflict than a handful of large targets along with a supply chain necessary to keep them going.
Exactly this. Dario is a far bigger snake than Altman. Altman is fairly transparent and his plays are obvious on the surface, but Dario is the type of guy that will shiv you in the spine when you turn the lights off. Anthropic consistently employs blackhat marketing techniques. The amount of times they've released nonsense clickbait media pushes backed by "studies" that don't reinforce what they claim, about their AI being "sentient", is a prime example of that. Ever since they launched they have been reinforcing the narrative that they're the "safe" and "moral" AI company, when it's far from the truth, hence their Palantir partnership. It's a pure marketing gimmick. They care about one thing and one thing only: Power. Money is the means to get there.
By the way, the round trip of: Sell and export your coal to manufacturers that burn that coal to produce electronic goods that produce energy, then buy that energy technology to power your own infrastructure, is certainly not cheaper than just burning the coal you mined yourself for your energy production.
Cheaper (ergo, more profitable) for the mining companies, yes. That's about it though.
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