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The reason they‘ve been constructing data centers this huge, so many of them and so rapidly is AI and they‘ve been building them way too close to residential districts in many cases.
I challenge you to give me one good reason why we need these super data centers in our lives that outweigh the cons. They put our health at risk. Let alone the insane climate damage from all these gas turbines running 24/7. There is nothing on the internet you couldn‘t do anymore without them. Quite the opposite. The construction of more and bigger data centers is vastly accelerating enshittification of all services. You certainly don‘t need super data centers near cities to host Lemmy.
I mean have you seen the electricity bills in some places? They‘re literally running out of power, water and money so you can generate slop of dogs riding tricycles. There‘s a physical limit of how many of those slop factories you can physically support and Florida has seemingly reached it‘s limit.
They bring in lots of revenue, and the climate change is not an issue if we build more solar with energy storage. Texas is showing everyone it can be done.
Data centers need to be close to cities to have low latency to provide services. Even things like translation needs AI and if it's immediate it makes conversations between people who speak different languages faster. I talk to a guy who only knows Spanish and he uses AI to translate sometimes when his daughter is not available.
Let's not pretend the old way of translation with dictionary lookups and stuff actually worked
Actually fuck revenue tho.
You want cities to be broke?
"Climate change is not an issue"
Wow. Suddenly I can safely ignore every other opinion you have because clearly you also have brain damage.
What an insane thing to think.
You cut off the rest of the sentence where I qualify my statement
Your qualification is meaningless. It displays an egregious misunderstanding of climate change. Proudly asserting that it's nothing to worry about.
Preposterous.
The impact on climate change is not an issue if we use clean energy