Futurism By Joe Wilkins
“The first victims are party balloons.”
Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be your favorite AI chatbot.
As the hare-brained conflict enters its fifth week, the tech industry is raising alarm about a growing shortage of helium, the odorless gas that makes birthday balloons lighter than air — and which, it turns out, is silently undergirding the AI boom.
Per the Wall Street Journal, when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps effectively shut off travel through the Strait of Hormuz in response to US and Israeli aggression, they also cut off nearly a third of the world’s helium supply…
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