> Data centers are being built because there's demand for them from people who want to use AI, like me

No they aren't

They're being built so shareholders can profit off of people like you. The fact that you benefit from it does not actually factor in any way aside from the fact that you will pay them for that benefit

They aren't benevolently trying to help you out, they just want your money.

The fact that you want AI and think it will help you and society is actually what is irrelevant. If they weren't confident it would make them money it would not be built no matter how beneficial it would be.

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throw10920 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

>> Data centers are being built because there's demand for them from people who want to use AI, like me

> No they aren't

You literally said they are building data centers to cater to demand later on in your own comment:

> If they weren't confident it would make them money it would not be built

There you go. Your own point debunked by your own words.

> They aren't benevolently trying to help you out

I didn't say anything about the owners building stuff out of charity or benevolence. Are you responding to the wrong comment? Yours is more-or-less irrelevant to mine in addition to being self-contradictory.

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bluefirebrand 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

Come on bud. You claimed

> The fact that it (building data centers) also happens to increase "shareholder value" is irrelevant

It's not irrelevant. It is the primary reason they are being built

Your understanding about the cause and effect around why data centers are being built is completely backwards

	▲	throw10920 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please own up to the fact that you self-contradicted yourself in your own comment by first claiming that "No they aren't" and then "If they weren't confident it would make them money it would not be built". > It's not irrelevant. It is the primary reason they are being built ...and without any implications, that fact is irrelevant. Do you understand what relevance means? It means that there's meaning, implication. You haven't given a single follow-on implication from that hypothesis that actually matters to the discussion. > Your understanding about the cause and effect around why data centers are being built is completely backwards You don't understand your own position. You can't possibly understand mine. If you had taken a high-school economics course you would know that in this case, shareholder value and market demand imply each other. Your statement "Your understanding about the cause and effect around why data centers are being built is completely backwards" betrays a complete and total lack of understanding about economics, because there is no "backwards" when two things cause each other.