Danger, Danger, Data Center Disasters Everywhere

[Brenda]

Why are these environmental, human, economic catastrophes happening at breakneck speed?
I think it's either one of two things:

1. Soft invasion. Aliens have infiltrated our planet in a stealth manner and they are building "data centers" for some unknown reason.

2. "AI" is already in control. Along the lines of Hal or Cylons or Terminators.

Greed alone can't explain this extremely rapid build out of data centers nation wide and world wide.

The fact that local officials up to governors and congress people are signing NDA's and making these deals without any local citizen/taxpayers knowledge makes it clear it is nefarious.

The Utah project is called Stratos. 40,000 acres, the size of 2,000 Walmarts. Goodbye to what's left of the Great Salt Lake.

The Louisiana project is called Hyperion. Only 4,000 acres. Power Demand: Designed to scale up to 5 GW of computational capacity. This amount of power roughly equals what New York City uses on a typical winter day.

STOP THE MACHINES!

[lame54]

1. No check on the amount of wealth...

A single person can obtain

[purr-rat beauty]

2. AI has the Epstein files stashed away

And is using it as blackmail and extortion

[VMA131Marine]

3. 40,000 acres is 162 million square meters

If you covered it in solar panels you could get 100 MW peak power easily.

Obviously that’s not much compared to the 5GW that appears to be needed but you’ve got to start somewhere.

[anciano]

4. AI technology (including genAI) is the new reality of our modern world.....

some form of AI technology is now affecting almost everyone's life in some way, whether they are aware of it or not.

[hunter]

5. Other than trashing the natural and social environments I exist in?

Not really.

Maybe the special effects in some movies I've seen were fabricated by people using imitation intelligence.

I have a dumb flip phone. DU is my only social media. I've never used a QR code for anything. Advertising that moves or makes noise is excluded from my personal universe. I don't even look at the junk mail that comes to my house. It goes straight into the recycling bin before I walk into my house.

There's really no point in directing advertising my way. I never see it.

It seems my interest in new consumer technologies ended sometime around 1998.

We don't have to be hapless victims of the tech bro billionaires. We can resist.