Law of unintended consequences
Law of unintended consequences
Correction. Datacenters are being built in places that get huge tax breaks even though they don't really create jobs since most of them are basically "lights out" now. Cities and states have failed to understand this and are more than happy to hurt the local population to "create" about 35 full time jobs.
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>Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. The data centers that power artificial intelligence consume immense amounts of water to cool hot servers and, indirectly, from the electricity needed to run these facilities.
Correction. Datacenters are being built in places that get huge tax breaks even though they don't really create jobs since most of them are basically "lights out" now. Cities and states have failed to understand this and are more than happy to hurt the local population to "create" about 35 full time jobs.
Archive: https://archive.today/tf090
From the post:
>>Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
The data centers that power artificial intelligence consume immense amounts of water to cool hot servers and, indirectly, from the electricity needed to run these facilities.
or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
Sacrifices must be made.
But this article does make a good point. Governments shouldn't be incentivizing these centers in water stressed areas like Arizona or California. They might even want to go as far as preventing them with zoning laws.
Why not build these plants near large water sources like the Great Lakes?
>or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
Sacrifices must be made.
But this article does make a good point. Governments shouldn't be incentivizing these centers in water stressed areas like Arizona or California. They might even want to go as far as preventing them with zoning laws.
Why not build these plants near large water sources like the Great Lakes?
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