[ExI] bill gates commentary on climate change: wasRE: China and solar power

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2025, 11:04 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Time delayed realization: Bill Gates has been a leading promoter of the
> global warming notion, but last week much to the surprise of me and plenty
> of others, he backed off of that.  Perhaps he pondered the Singularity
> notion and concluded (as many or most of us here did) that there is low
> probability the Singularity will be far in the future.  He realized it is a
> near-term phenomenon, two or three decades at most, meaning that climate is
> irrelevant.
>

No, climate effects can still matter even over a few decades.  To take just
one example (and limiting the focus of effect to the topic at hand): a
hurricane through a data center, or through the power plant or other
infrastructure keeping that data center running, has a chance of delaying
the Singularity.

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