{"id":958,"date":"2026-05-16T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=958"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:41:48","slug":"let-them-eat-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/let-them-eat-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How long before the first dystopian novel or movie about starving, frozen, homeless hordes storming data centres?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it already exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And how long before it happens for real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can&#8217;t be long now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a weird future the AI gurus envision where people don\u2019t need light or heat or energy to cook or, in some locations where houses are being seized via eminent domain or compulsory purchase, even their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let them eat data!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long before the first dystopian novel or movie about starving, frozen, homeless hordes storming data centres? Perhaps it already exists. And how long before it happens for real? It can&#8217;t be long now. It\u2019s a weird future the AI gurus envision where people don\u2019t need light or heat or energy to cook or, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/let-them-eat-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let Them Eat Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[109,224,36,556],"tags":[248,247,652,41],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-history","category-politics","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-centres","tag-dystopia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-fs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}