From a Google Image Search - The American Conservative
Timing is everything, or so they say. If you want to build hundreds of data centers that will use energy we can’t make yet, and freshwater we can’t live without, then elect Mr. Narcissistic Time Capsule for president. As he dismantles our democracy and creates chaos by creating his own personal make-a-wish foundation at taxpayers’ expense, I guess the billionaire class thinks we won’t notice that they are ruining America’s beauty and bounty by putting sprawling white buildings that hum unpleasantly and turn freshwater into toxins everywhere.
Erin Brockovich has taken this on as her newest fight and gives us the maps she has made of the places various wealthy tech companies want to build these monstrosities. They don’t come into communities with lists of how the folks who live there will benefit after the thing is built. (They won’t.) They don’t even say what kinds of data will be stored there using up all the water in the world to cool the servers or data storage towers. They don’t explain why it takes so many data centers to fake mine fake money. The skinny is that Trump has declared these data centers to be military installations and as such to stop them would be un-American. This may or may not be true, but it sounds true.
From a Google Image Search - maps.com
How many kinds of AI do we need? Does each tech company and billionaire want its own data center, or do they want more than one? Are they creating competing AI systems in a race to see whose makes the most money. Instead of competing couldn’t they cooperate to create one AI system that works? Does each AI system need more than one data center? Why is there so much secrecy? Are they competing with China? Are they for surveillance? We are not that interesting. Perhaps we’re just superfluous.
Whatever they tell us, it’s difficult to believe that we will benefit from these data centers in any way. A few data centers seem to be planning their own energy sources, but they have no way to get their own water resources unless they know of a hidden spring that produces endless quantities of freshwater. They see us as standing in the way of progress. We see that they are rushing us into a technology that is not ready yet for reasons of greed (and to prove their masculinity). Even high-T males cannot live without water.
Choice or no choice - we don’t want your data centers.
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