if AI is so smart, why didn’t it predict this

even R voters are up an arms, they specifically built them in republican counties to avoid regulations. pollution, air temperature increase, electricity consumption, is hard to ignore.

We are seriously going to need to stop being a bunch of weak ass losers and overthrow this corrupt government

I would think any human would be opposed to a bunch of machines sucking up all of their water and energy just to make a very few people rich and powerful beyond their wildest dreams. I'm still not convinced that it is beneficial and why is the tech/business/media world pushing this so hard? Value means a happy community, not owning a yacht for your private island.

Thank Kevin Oleary

Building a 62 sq mile facility

Everyone hates that fuck

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? ;)

If you build a factory someplace, the factory consumes a lot of resources and can be a nuisance. But in return, it provides jobs; at the very minimum. Going beyond that, usually someone in the corporate heirarchy is smart enough to realize that building good will with the neighbors is important and they encourage the employees to give back to the community to that end.

The actual impact may vary but if nothing else, symbolic gestures that say, "we know our presence here has an impact and we want to make sure it's a positive impact as much as possible." tend to go a long way in terms of winning support and acceptance from the community.

Data centers consume lots of resources and can be a nuisance. Unlike other operations, they provide very few long term jobs and give basically nothing back to their host community beyond that. They take far more than they give back. If the "geniuses" who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

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.

I get the feeling the 3,000+ data centers aren’t being built so everyone can generate slop, but instead are going to end up being the infrastructure for the digital cage. AI won’t replace humans, but it can certainly spy on them quite effectively. Big tech and the U.S. government have been trending towards a fascist merger of state and corporate power for quite some time, and the FBI’s recent partnership with Flock and OpenAI becoming an official member of the military industrial complex are not good news. I fear we are headed towards a historically unprecedented ability for governments to track and control the populace. No matter what, these data centers are not for the benefit of the average citizen.

Gotta admit, my strong feelings about them didn't start til my power costs doubled out of the blue

I was listening to an interview today where they brought up the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (NAFTA). People were working these manufacturing jobs they hate and the idea was. NAFTA would make things cheaper for Americans which it did. The downside was it took away many more high paying jobs for the middle class.

AI is like a second version of this law. It's going to take away tons of jobs in the name of increased productivity with a reduced focus on safety.

People talk about illegal immigrants taking jobs away but they should be way more concerned with AI. The profits from all AIs saved labor that saved labor will go into the pockets of a few mega corporations. What incentive do those companies have to provide spread the wealth around and improve the lives of those suffering from AI? It's deeper than just one country. There is income other countries rely on that will stop flowing and they will feel the deep impact as well.

"not in my backyard" stance.

Did they stop filling polls with AI generated answers or something?

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.

It's a huge waste of money at this point, and the technology will become rapidly antiquated. The depreciation will be insanely high, while the software that's requires it becomes much more efficient. At this point we already have enough data centers, we just need more efficient software and smarter usage.

Americans as a whole are really fucking slow. The slop factory "industry" should have been eighty-sixed for its waste of resources before they ever built the first data center. It's not like the costs weren't known from the start.

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.

I’m willing to bet it correlates with shortages and price increases.

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?