I’m willing to bet it correlates with shortages and price increases.
That is despite huge propaganda campaigns by tech giants and the government in favor of them mind you. Everyone who experienced what it‘s like living near one absolutely hates it for many reasons including health issues from the noise and vibration. Anyone who doesn‘t already got a taste of it when utility bills climbed up.
Not hard to figure out why. There‘s an oil crisis and these AI bro fucks keep constructing giant diesel engines to power the giant data centers. Everyone else loses.
There‘s an oil crisis and these
they are selling strategic reserves overseas . I cant believe this.
The CEOs of these companies boast constantly about these technologies replacing workers. Those same rich fucks support active efforts to cut social safety nets to increase their own tax cuts. So people don’t trust them or the future they are building and don’t want to support it. This, on top of the myriad other negative impacts of data centers - what exactly is in it for us?
The U.S. AI roll out is reckless and sloppy - prioritizing speed of development. Meanwhile China is focusing on efficient coding and development based on practical use and spending a fraction of the cost. American is creating an AI bubble unlike any bubble our economy has ever dealt with sitting on top of the greatest government debt in history. When it pops, the government will be too leveraged to bail us out. The rich will jump ship to their tax havens and the people will be saddled with multi-generational austerity. This is the end of a long road of corrupt business interests and billionaires strip mining the wealth of the USA.
Fuck capitalism.
Meanwhile China is focusing on efficient
codingmodelsChina coding is most often even worse than US coding.
I honestly can’t wait for the first people to set fire to these things. There’s no way the US people will stay complacent forever right? At one point someone will snap, no?
Sure, any day now
They increase the cost of consumer electricity and water; they increase the temperature of the local area; they generate (in some cases) heavy metal pollution and (in most cases) sound pollution.
What’s not to love? ;)
And they raise the prices of consumer electronics.
Not to mention some idiot decided to put these water-pollution factories in places that historically have limited access to water and right now are experiencing one of the worst droughts of all time (at least in the top-5). People are a little protective of their precious water at times like these.
We all knew that this century’s history would come to be dominated by the Water Wars. We just never realized that AI would be one of the major combatants in those wars.
And CEOs are using ai as the new excuse to not give raises on top of mass firings. They’re really expecting thank you cards?
Also air pollution because quite a few are gas-powered (mobile units). Elon Musk’s among them.
The 10 year almost complete lack of regulation for all things AI might have something to do with it.
Gotta admit, my strong feelings about them didn’t start til my power costs doubled out of the blue
What’s not being mentioned enough is they’re mainly being used to collect more data on people. It’s mass surveillance mascaraing as AI.
insider info here: many IT companies are using lobbyists to pressure state/local and federal governments on everything from zoning to power distribution.
these aren’t just AI companies, but hosting companies, saas/paas companies, any company with the requirement to build or expand a datacenter.
if you don’t like it, make sure you make it very clear to your representatives what your thoughts are on the subject and what you plan to do otherwise.
Representatives don’t give one fuck about their constituents and what they have to say. They only care about what corporation and billionaire paid them last. And given the 2 party system in the U.S., they don’t have to care about getting voted out either. If they are a Republican in a red district, they can do whatever they want and get voted back in and the same goes for the Democrats.
The ONLY peaceful thing that will save America is getting money out of politics. Until that happens, and good luck with that, your representative will continue to wipe their ass with your concerns.
Representatives don’t give a fuck what their constituents have to say on social media. It’s full of foreign trolls and bots.
But if you go in person to a town hall / public hearing on an agenda item, they know that you are:
- A real person
- An American
- Extremely likely to vote in the next election.
Source: I successfully killed a local zoning change by convincing my neighbors to go out and speak against it, despite lobbying from a large developer.
Wow, happy to hear that worked!
like I said
make sure you make it VERY CLEAR to your representatives what your thoughts are on the subject and
what you plan to do otherwise
I wish I knew. Don’t get me wrong, I have several times contacted both house and senators in my state. I’ve gotten one response out of probably 10 letters. I find the “contact your representative” method to be challenging when voters are up against massive amounts of bribery and a two party system that forces voters to vote either R or D.
Americans don’t know how to fight AI so they’re fighting data centers instead. You’ll notice folks who don’t care about climate change or brown kids with cancer taking an interest in this fight.
Americans don’t know how to fight AI
Tell us then, o wise one. How do you fight AI?
Molten steel, usually.
Tell us then, o wise one. How do you fight AI?
probably with their smug sense of superiority.
Up until this weekend I leaned towards banning datacenters, but now I think we need to figure out how to let them get built. We’re going to be in trouble due to supply chain disruption, geopolitical instability, and population decline around the world and will need as much tech built as possible now.
How does building a bunch of datacenters fix anything?
Also that’s a quick 180 you’ve done, wonder what you’ll be thinking next weekend 🤔
We don’t need that shit. There’s no use for one.
They’re going to be used as automated surveillance centers anyway.
