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We all see this coming, but the billionaires and our state/county/city leaders assure us everything will be fair and fine.
Same deal with water. It will be 100 degrees and data centers will be draining local water supplies, while residents will be told not to water their flowers or take too many showers.
Fuck all this.
I love that their solution is to not use the thing that the data centers are supposed to be for.
Oh don't worry, people in Silicon Valley won't feel the restrictions and will be running their OpenClaw-type chained agents all night long doing absolutely nothing of worth.
I'll be so sad when the CEOs get Luigi'd.
People will be sacked for turning up to work smelling of sweat. Such fun times.
In Virginia during the fifa World Cup there are a lot of pro data center ads funded by a group that was created for this purpose called Virginia Connects.
It’s the usual shitbags lying to the public to make it sound like data centers are good
Are they in cahoots with the PACs that support pro AI candidates? (Are they the same groups? I really don't know.)
California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.
Same play here.
California also has the stupidest water rights with “use it or lose” it clauses that counters any incentives to become more efficient. A couple families control a ridiculous amount of water rights.
The problem is that data centers don't need water, they need cooling, and water is suitable for that because it's the cheapest. They could do the cooling in many other ways, but it costs money
So it's official now. AI comes before schools, and before children. Welp. So much for thinking about the children.
The children only matter in election cycles
and before they're born.
The perception that children matter only exists in election cycles.
They never really matter.
And on their private islands
And when it comes to starting moral panics to strip away rights.
Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
Because actual intelligence doesn't vote conservative.
We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.
We need ~~Anonymous~~ to do something about data centers.
Don't wait for others to save us.
While I agree, theres nothing I can actually do. Besides inform people of the damage they cause by using big tech, which has gotten me nowhere so far.
If everyone today quit using meta and google products and openai (and voted on laws to keep data centers out, and voted on laws against monopolies) , the entire industry would crumble.
Please sir...can I have some more....electricity
said the poor school to the billionaires
I guess they could light a data center on fire to keep warm and not run their heaters? Win/win?
(Also I hope it’s very obvious to everyone this is a joke, I’m not trying no to incite or encourage violence in any way at all).
I'm just amazed at the grotesquely huge amounts of copper they have in those datacenters.
I also hope that data centers "don't" get burnt down. How "un"satisfying would that be. While I'm at it, I hope no one kills the trillionaire.
Killdozer needs to come back...
Improve the cooling system first. We are talking about Marvin, right?
County with 37 datacenters can go fuck itself with a cactus.
here come the brownouts motherfuckers...
Are they keeping profits from data centres away from schools?
Educating the kids would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The only training they need is how to mow the grass around the data centres.
But also, don't forget to teach AI and use AI in your school!
https://www.vaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HenricoGenerativeAIPreparingForDigitalAge.pdf
I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO. I really hope this kind of stuff wakes people up enough to do something about it.
I least they got all that money and jobs (right? I'm pretty sure Facebook skirted that actually)
Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people
Don’t need school if you have chat gpt /s
Well.. duh. Data center makes dollar, schools costs dollar
An interesting one there, how can schools consumption be compared to that of Data centers
Maybe they just want people to waste time pointing spiderman fingers at eachother for not turning off their computers.
