永不满足：AI竞赛如何重塑物理世界

Indoor rain, windows to nowhere, and reanimated nuclear reactors— how the race to power AI is remaking the physical world PHOTOGRAPHS BY LANDON SPEERS As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down— our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then an active power plant to our left, equipped with enormous natural-gas turbines. Pearson, who directs the non- profit Memphis Community Against Pollution, was bringing me to his hometown’s latest industrial mega project. Already, the air smelled of soot, gasoline, and asphalt. Then I felt a tickle sliding up my nostrils and down into my throat, like I was getting a cold. …