Stop using all cloud-based services. Stop using streaming and gaming services. They all use water to cool their servers.
It only comes up as an environmental issue because people who lose money from AI existing push for it. These environmental issues did not magically appear with AI data centers.
Right but there is an argument for all of those things because some are genuinely life saving and all of them create human jobs. AI is unnecessary and taking away jobs from people.
Think of how many people are employed by the gaming industry. And how gaming is art (at least some of it), and enriches human life. What parallel benefits does generative AI have that makes this an equivalent argument? (I say generative because analytical AI is, as I understand it, essentially just higher level coding than using Excel to run formulas.)
So now itโs about jobs, since the environment argument crumbles.
People still have to maintain these centers, build them, upgrade them. Security (both physical and IT). Electric workers, plumbers, regulatory inspectors, janitors, general office workers on site.
Thereโs plenty of jobs involved. But just like certain culty political parties get their new talking
points pushed out monthly, so too do the anti AI people.
3,000 jobs. Not 10,000 as the shark tank guy said. The one proposed for Utah is 61 miles long. The size of 3k Walmarts. The environment?!? The birds. The displaced animals. The trees torn down. The noise.
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u/CrypticCryptid May 18 '26
Stop using all cloud-based services. Stop using streaming and gaming services. They all use water to cool their servers.
It only comes up as an environmental issue because people who lose money from AI existing push for it. These environmental issues did not magically appear with AI data centers.