> I would rather have my fingernails ripped out than deal with years of government bureaucracy.

These are just words. What matters are your actions. Your action is that you will cause other people to suffer pollution in order to enrich yourself. Why can't you stand up like a man and just say that that is what you want to do?

And if you say "I am doing this to benefit humanity who need even more AI so badly" - Well those are also just words.