You realize that it was only just recently that there's been a huge push to a lot of new huge datacenters that need their own gas power plants because they're ADVERTISING them for how much power they use.

Yes there were datacenters before and nobody wants to block ALL datacenters, but this push is different.

Maybe because until recent years corporations didn't hoard the world computation power to run glorified chatbots.

Ai wasn’t widely discussed until these past few years because it wasn’t threatening to take our jobs then.

Of course we are using data centers for places like these, but these public forums are built for people. While the CEO of Nvidia only referred to people in his latest (?) speech as “humans”, and the only reasonable explanation would be to distance yourself from everyone so you don’t feel the empathetic pain of being the direct cause of the ram shortage.

Not to mention, the cost of producing AI generated images is significantly more than just saving and sending and receiving text and images for a place like this.