Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that they’re destroying the environment on purpose for some nefarious purpose.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think it’s more likely that yellow journalism is making an issue out of something that isn’t as big a deal as it is.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Since when does yellow journalism care about the environment?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When haven’t they?
Fear and anger sell.
This AI shit is the leftist version of “illegal immigrants are stealing yur jobs”
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair, the “infinite scaling” vision Altman and such are selling is quite a dystopia. And they are the ones pushing it.
It’s not reality at all. But it’s kinda reasonable for people to hate that specifically.