If they were built alongside massive solar farms then building in Arizona or Texas might make almost sense, and yet…

As someone who relies on a wide variety of medications to survive and is not mobile enough to reliably get about anywhere without a lot of modern conveniences, and who’s parter would be dead without the above, and who quite likes the internet

No

What is this? A post about data centres on Lemmy that’s accurate?

The point you are DELIBERATELY missing is that farms use so much water than AI data centres that the amount data centres use is irrelevant. The water usage claims are so ridiculously overblown and so obviously stupid that it’s appalling that people believe them! I have seen people genuinely claim that water used in data centres is destroyed and can never be recovered, or that it’s polluted so badly it can never be cleaned. Farms not only use multiple orders of magnitude more water, they also pollute it a hell of a lot more so it’s far more difficult to clean and more damaging to the environment. A lot of the claimed numbers come from one person who got gallons and megalitres confused! Just stop spreading this utter nonsense! <haters will not respond with downvotes for calling them out, and more repeatedly debunked nonsense, because they always do, they’re really dull as well as annoying!>

A visual representation of an echo chamber

Pop music now is better and more diverse than it ever has been. And I say this as a 45 year old

Ah okay. Not one I’ve stumbled across before

Is there something I’m missing that makes these fascist rather than just eco-psychotic? I mean don’t get me wrong they ain’t happyfuntimes, but fascist does mean something specific and we need it to describe actual fascists right now

Fortunately life is better now

In the UK we call that a “digger” because it digs

They’re tools and when used as such they are clearly useful in various ways, one biased article not withstanding

Anything to back that up? No? Okay then

Any thing to back that up because that sounds like bullshit spread by the fascist US government who want NATO gone on behalf of Russia

So it’s all net negative in my eyes.

Don’t say shit like that for a start. Shows you haven’t bothered to consider any of the multitudinous ways AI is useful. Your concerns are valid but are nothing to do with AI, they are system problems with the late stage crony capitalism we current have inflicted on us

Oh yes, of course, my bad

If you somehow took the film as a warning about computers generating pictures as directed by a human user you’re really stretching!

Thank you for being so supportive

Honestly not convinced even the current gen of LLMs could do a worse job of governing us than the current shower of human grifters!

Maybe learn something about a subject before spouting off

That’s a you problem, but thanks for your input