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Protecting Who? “Bring Your Own Power” Projects for AI Data Centers Would Wreak Havoc on Communities and the Environment, New Report Finds (earthjustice.org)
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[–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Force them to use wind/solar. "AI" now are filthy rich so they will manage to use green energy and still be filthy profitable.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Still needs to follow environmental protections and go easy on the locals. Having wind turbines everywhere just for data centers isn't so great either.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    isn’t so great either

    With such an attitude you will just hate anything. You can't have en "extremely ideal all-around nice variant without even the tiniest flaw". Real world doesn't work that way :)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    We don't need that many data centers, so we also don't need to expand energy production at this scale.

    Even renewables have an impact and for some reason countries love to build their solar parks in nature reserves rather than a desert. Go figure.

    You gotta weigh the pros and cons for every decision. This has nothing to do with perfectionism when the cons are clearly outnumbering the pros.

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