One being built near me is being built on public lands that are being sold off for datacenters. That's an additional pretty big negative (especially since the specific land was set apart as a wildlife habitat.)

I do really dislike that AFAIK almost all of these are being powered via burning fossil fuels. Any way you slice it, it's going to mean that locals end up paying higher energy bills.

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SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess we can assume that the executives at the big AI companies don't believe in man made climate change.

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crote an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Climate change is a lot less important when you are rich enough that it doesn't impact you personally, and when you don't care about what the world looks like after you die.

Sure, millions of people are going to die due to climate change, and that's going to impact the company's profitability, but by then your stock options will have already vested - so that's a problem for someone else!

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catlifeonmars an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

A(G)I is supposed to fix everything so nothing matters /s

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foo12bar an hour ago | parent [-]

Why is this sarcastic? Isn't this a plausible possibility?

	▲	taybin 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Given that everything important has trade-offs, no, AI, even if it were very very smart wouldn’t be able to “fix everything”