Well I’m in Canada, and almost everything is tied in with natural resources at some level. Lol
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Aralakh@lemmy.ca 5 days agoCool, thank you satisfying my curiosity. Wouldn’t have thought of mineral surveying crossed with tech, though not surprising eh, not something I come across personally I guess.
tunetardis@piefed.ca 5 days ago
Chaf@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Since we’re already drifting off topic - all big tech companies make a lot of money by selling hardware, compute, or some other service to the oil and gas industry, they just don’t go out bragging about it. Before the AI boom the oil and gas industry was among the biggest customers of the tech industry, just a quick search gives:
www.amd.com/en/solutions/energy.html
www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/…/oil-gas
www.nvidia.com/en-us/…/oil-gas-operations/
cloud.google.com/solutions/energy/oil-gas
www.ibm.com/industries/oil-gas
www.intel.co.uk/…/aramco-executive-brief.pdf
tunetardis@piefed.ca 4 days ago
Yeah, the prospecting industry includes mining and oil/gas. I’m in the former. In the past, if you went to a trade convention, the oil/gas side would take up at least 2/3 of the floor space, but that’s kind of flipping around now. The electrification of the economy is bringing metals to the fore.