The cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley

I'm not familiar with the situation and so was curious about the assertions of scale increases in the article, and disappointed in the lack of citations.

Here are a few resources I found on the subject:

- https://www.mining.com/copper-industry-needs-to-invest-2-1-t...

- https://cilive.com/commodities/metals-mining/news-and-insigh...

- https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chiles-copper-mi...

Sounds like a tough situation, although I remain skeptical about how much of it is due directly to AI as the author is trying to assert versus other growth technologies.

More countries should boot out the foreign multinationals exploiting their resources and build their own sovereign wealth. People need the copper and the capital is there to build your own infrastructure.