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doublerabbit 4 hours ago

> And they're doing something valuable to society by developing undeveloped land.

A datacentre is not valuable to anyone other than the owner.

Trees > Datacentre, get your environmental priorities straight.

Do you deny climate change too?

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Legend2440 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>A datacentre is not valuable to anyone other than the owner.

Ah, that is a misunderstanding of economics. It's valuable to everyone who uses AI; the owner captures only part of the value. It's just like a how a factory is valuable to everyone who buys their products.

Trees are cool, but we need infrastructure and fields and cities and many other things too. We're going to have to cut down some trees to make space for them.

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doublerabbit 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Nice straw-man.

"we need infrastructure and fields and cities and many other things too"; we have the infrastructure. It's just easier, cheaper to build new than to repair and fix the old.

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Legend2440 4 hours ago | parent [-]

We are not close to done building things, and the existing infrastructure is not enough.

We need both new infrastructure (like high-speed rail and apartment blocks) and new types of infrastructure (like datacenters).

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alt227 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No we dont, we need to stop eating into more of nature and start learning to live using far less resources.

	▲	Detrytus 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, imagine the joy of chasing your dinner through savannah with nothing but a pointy stick. Feel free to do that, btw, but I will stick to living in a civilized society.