AI too. The power to build out all those datacenters isn’t coming from new generation unless it’s methane belching shit like X’s colossus and that’s just offsetting the shitty garbage into the atmosphere instead of your power bill. And Trump is very much neck deep in AI, crypto and all the attendant bubble garbage.

But I’m guessing you haven’t actually looked at any numbers yourself…

sure thing sparky. you still haven’t replied to SHOW ME ONE GOOD UPSIDE THAT JUSTIFIES IT. keep changing the subject.

https://www.slashgear.com/1994908/meta-ai-data-centers-affecting-water-supply-in-multiple-states/

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1249592906/energy-water-ai-climate-tech

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2026/01/11/americas-ai-boom-is-running-into-an-unplanned-water-problem/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135426005488

https://time.com/article/2026/06/03/ai-global-water-resources-un-report/

so self hosted avoids all that?

no it just distributes it and makes it less effective, and, you still have to train it, where the massive portion of power and water is used.

and it’s probably still built on stolen everything.

show me one good upside from all those downsides that justifies it.

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF?

It’s not going away because twats and useful idiots assume it’s inevitable because someone with a RAFT of financial incentives has convinced you it’s inevitable and you believed them.

you’re worried about improbable hypotheticals while the whole thing is the issue and it’s cooking the planet

I don’t think there are enough deluded to represent a viable market for them. sure, there are some people who are woefully dependent on the shit, but they need a substantial chunk of the population to be enamored and it’s not there. if anything what I’m seeing is that people are revolted by it more and more each day.

oh I see plenty of NEWS about AI that’s negative, but it’s not ‘journalists trying to make people afraid’ it’s people incensed because there’s a data center making them deaf, raising their water and power costs, or the entire technology making components more expensive.

trying to make you afraid of AI lol… get fucked

show me one good upside from all those downsides that justifies it.

VERY mainstream media outlet is trying to make you afraid of AI,

I don’t see this at all; I see them hyping it or letting it slide.

I worry that they’re trying to make it such a gigantic part of the economy it’ll be ‘too big to fail’ and end up on the taxpayer’s bill

Those already dependant or addicted, will pay.

I disagree; they’ve been gorging on the cheap slop buffet for so long, when they realize it costs real money they’re gonna revolt - ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY REALIZE IT’S STILL FULL OF HALLUCINATIONS lol.

Evidence:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html

poor baby can’t even formulate a comeback lol

oh and btw, FUCK YOU for equating AI SLOP to FOSS software. That’s a shit take of mammoth proportions and you should shove it up your ass sideways, it’s absolute garbage.

Yeah, we should stop mislabeling LLMs as AI. I have yet to see anything, ANY THING, that would justify the artist crushing, soul sucking, component costs-skyrocketing, child undressing, suicide prompting, power guzzling, water draining and manifold other garbage that is intrinsic on this ‘age of AI’.

It’s snake oil, shitware and techbros burning the fucking planet and destroying entire industries because they’re so fucking sure their roided up elizabots are gonna change humanity - and can’t comprehend, it certainly is changing humanity, FOR THE WORSE.

yeah, we only created the garbage, how could we ever turn the garbage off?

I mean, with shit takes like that, geeze, guess we’re really fucked

Mmm… better that all AI fail.

yes. I don’t think they still feature this vulnerability.

but it was so bad, and such a stupid thing to cheap out on - I’ll never trust the brand.

eat all of my shit and hair

ew, waiter, there’s a hair in this shit!

KIA

after that whole kia boys / usb debacle I’d never trust the brand.

meanwhile honda has retreated on EVs… .AGAIN…

I so want to convert my old honda element into a 40-60m range EV. it’s so damned compact and handy.

https://www.matteast.io/spacex-escape-velocity.html

Seriously, let the boys be boys.

No, I wouldn’t.

It’s all garbage, including your take here.