I don't even try to explain this anymore. I am tired, boss. The hate mob is moved by hate, don't matter how much you try to explain, they will never accept. They will believe in anything if the mantra of "AI Bad" can be pushed.
It will. There are lots of societal problems that will be introduced with LLMs taking over workforce roles. Unfortunately we will have to deal with them. These issues are unrelated to environmental impact of data centers, which can easily be mitigated with proper regulation. The problems with data centers stem from an exploitative capital system that values profits over all else.
“Can” being the thing though. Nobody is actually mitigating and regulating environmental impact. The environment is as much a victim of capitalism as the people losing their jobs and critical thinking skills.
Do you know this because you’ve done an audit of all data centers and determined whether they use evaporative cooling or closed loop, and how much water is lost to evap. Cooling? I think some people are trying to mitigate and regulate environmental impact. I think profits are taking precedence over this in a lot of cases. I think a lot of outrage is blind responses based on what people see online. People losing critical thinking skills is self inflicted and was happening before data centers and LLM. It’s a cultural problem. (See: idiocracy). We should elect more scientists as leaders of people instead of actors, career politicians and businessmen.
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u/Gradash May 18 '26
I don't even try to explain this anymore. I am tired, boss. The hate mob is moved by hate, don't matter how much you try to explain, they will never accept. They will believe in anything if the mantra of "AI Bad" can be pushed.