i'd love to have a single term to refer to the complex of cryptocurrency, applied statistical models like LLMs, cloud datacenters and their ilk. there is something qualitatively different about them compared to e.g. homegrown personal communication technology

recently saw them gathered together in a table in the Limits 2023 paper "Computing as Ecocide" [1], it felt like a fresh breath of air to see someone else point these culprits out in a consolidated fashion

[1] assets.pubpub.org/8ywvpdep/516