I wouldn’t go that far. All the websites, apps, and electronic services we use every day are hosted in some datacenter somewhere. I’d say we get value out of that.
They didn’t become a political football until the AI companies drastically increased how much power and cooling each rack used. I don’t think we’re getting enough extra value out of stuffing AI in everything to justify the added environmental cost over more standard, non-AI web services.
Sure and we don’t any new ones. These latest ones are huge inefficient and unoptimized. They are not being built to earn a profit. They are destroying the consumer electronics market and should not be allowed to do so. They are raising prices for electricity and using natural resources especially water. They do not pay their way. They bribe and con clueless politicians into letting them get a free ride at the expanse of citizens.
It’s a general view, we aren’t thinking we need to burn down all the data centers… the fact is they are looking to scale up 5x the current stock in a couple of years. This isn’t like saying “we should never cut down a tree” this is like, “we shouldn’t clean cut the whole rainforest”.
No it isn’t. They are a drain on society. They do not produce any useful gain.
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I wouldn’t go that far. All the websites, apps, and electronic services we use every day are hosted in some datacenter somewhere. I’d say we get value out of that.
They didn’t become a political football until the AI companies drastically increased how much power and cooling each rack used. I don’t think we’re getting enough extra value out of stuffing AI in everything to justify the added environmental cost over more standard, non-AI web services.
Sure and we don’t any new ones. These latest ones are huge inefficient and unoptimized. They are not being built to earn a profit. They are destroying the consumer electronics market and should not be allowed to do so. They are raising prices for electricity and using natural resources especially water. They do not pay their way. They bribe and con clueless politicians into letting them get a free ride at the expanse of citizens.
It’s a general view, we aren’t thinking we need to burn down all the data centers… the fact is they are looking to scale up 5x the current stock in a couple of years. This isn’t like saying “we should never cut down a tree” this is like, “we shouldn’t clean cut the whole rainforest”.
Everything is about quantity.