According to Climatiq (OurWorldinData): _data centers_ have surpassed aviation and shipping in terms of CO$_2$ emissions. It is basically _insane_ that we do not talk about this more. The exertion (extraction, exploitation) of the future by the hand of insignificant capital returns today continues to be the guiding framework for AI. Why is something so simple, so difficult to counter? What is simple, and dramatic, too: the current AI-labor craze invisibilizes the actual labor, movement, exertion occurring behind the visions of automated futures.