Brokovich might not know it. But her web people certainly used AI to build this site. From the Emojis, cards, to the single colored left border.
I agree with this.
At the same time, all of the data center proposals in my state are in remote locations nowhere near any residences. They’re still the target of protests.
ie it is in the economic interest of the writers to tap into (and foment) the FUD around "data centers."
Just one random Google result:
For reference: https://www.datacenterjournal.com/data-centers/oregon/portla...
* if it's serious, what in the world do you eat, to compare farming, with AI datacentres, on equal / comparable footing in terms of necessity and efficiencies -- or call farming a "heritage business"? :->
For most people it is just a thing that produces crappy facebook memes, has made certain parts of life more dystopian - like job interviews, and people keep saying is going to take away your job and the jobs of your children. And energy prices keep going up.
If you can't see why AI is unpopular you're just very out of touch.
https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/
Not being negative. But isn’t there existing highly reliable data that already exists for this?
Pretty functional design.
However, "user reports" on that map clearly conflate the two, also reporting small, established sites in urban areas, etc.
In what fairytale land does this describe the US today?
Maybe they'll seize the means of computing and repurpose it for putting pictures of pillow shams on Pinterest.
I wonder if they think data centers didn't exist before 2025 and the Internet was run as some sort of underground railroad out of broom closets and people's basements.
If slop is more expensive to produce, maybe there will be less of it clogging up the digital commons.
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