| ▲ | jmyeet 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> The media is actively instilling hate for AI. > Data centers are evil. Water is being destroyed. Eight whole rivers are drained to make a cat jpeg. > Rich people are stealing all the jobs. That would be a rare occurrence of the media doing its job because literally all of those things are true. One difference between China and the US is that China won't allow data centers to jack up electricity prices, make things more expensive, be an environmental nightmare or create an unemployment crisis. None of those guardrails exist the US and honestly most Western "democracies". Maybe there wouldn't be this reaction if we didn't have an affordability crisis and our government wasn't just 5 companies in a trench coat doing its best to do the largest wealth transfer to the wealthy in history then maybe, just maybe, we'd have a different attitude to AI. I read a thing awhile ago that companies are increasingly resentful of having to go through you to get your money and I think about that often because it feels like the most accurate description of living in 2026. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jazzypants 7 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The only one that's not entirely true is the water usage concern. The vast amount of water usage is non-consumptive, and you can even use reclaimed wastewater. To be clear, I'm on your side-- I just want to make sure that we don't give our opponents any ammunition by spouting misinformation. I'm happy to be proven wrong on this. https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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