Is there a /c/extremelydepressing? This would go perfectly there.

Not even solar panels on the roofs.

This disgusts me and angers me beyond words

To me, the problem seems to be bad regulators. They could have mandated that data centers have solar panels on their roof. They could have mandated a certain amount of greenery around the warehouse, so that the area was less impactful. It's been a known issue that unregulated Capitalism will cause mass destruction quite frequently for decades if not centuries. You can't expect every business to 'do the right thing' every time...that would be stupidly optimistic of regulators.

Let’s just all die

This in exchange for something that just invented nonsense words and inserted them into my science presentation?

It's a bit unfortunate the second xAI is taken in the winter, so we can't really see how much of the trees are gone, but looks like a lot.

And still no jobs..

Makes me sad

This is violence against the bulk of humanity

Honestly amazing that these tech companies are able to make a building full of computers look like an open strip mine. They don't even try to beautify the campuses or anything, just bare dirt and ponds full of acrid water. I live in taconite country and have seen active mining operations put in more care for the communities they invade then big tech does

To be fair. This isn’t an AI issue. Or a data center issue. It’s an everywhere issue. If there is a plot of land, it will be leveled and something will be built. Strip mall. Gas station. Houses. So many houses. It’s never ending. If that piece of land can make money, it will be clear cut and built on.

This is not mild. This is infuriating.

Are these places extremely patrolled and secure? I'm just surprised people aren't burning them to the ground or disrupting them some way or somehow

Looks like they cleared the area with agent orange 😌

OpenAI literally desertified the area?

Some day, the people may rise up... And maybe all of these will burn.

I like to think the employees will do it. Who knows, though...

I just know it needs to be done.

This behaviour is exactly why parts of the world are literary on fire right now. It's not just the loss of trees, its the other impacts of these data centers too, such as increased use of fossil fuels.

Sorry shady, I meant trees causing shade

Nothing mild about this

1. Summer vs winter picture, not a very honest take

2. It would look the same for any commercial building - a warehouse, shopping center (would be even worse), etc.

No need to be disingenuous, it just weakens the argument and gives someone who disagrees with you valid ammunition.

I don't like AI data centres, but try to get photos of the same month/season to make this point.

Not all development that removes trees are created equally, just saying. If it's a new interstate power transmission line, solar or wind farm, new non-market housing, passenger rail line, it would be better than a data centre, ICE concentration camp, oil pipeline, intensive agriculture, etc. The end use matters more to weigh against, than saying clearing trees is never worth it as a blanket statement. If it is worth developing, officials have to weigh the importance the forest as a natural habitat compared to natural bogs, lakes and meadows as alternatives, to maintain biome diversity.

That's because it's propaganda. The person who created the image has a particular point of view and has manipulated what they choose to present to push that view forward.

Whether that view is correct or not is irrelevant to the fact that this is manipulative.

Post more images of things being built! Thanks for having beautiful summer days as the before, and fugly winter as the after to make the difference that much starker, the point of view we're intended to have after viewing this almost wasn't clear enough

Why are the trees red in the first picture?
Is it just the season (summer vs fall) or another reason?

Obvviously.
What's the thing?

Download anew America Sahara Desert…

Mildly interesting? I'd say mildly infuriating. But you can skip the mildly.

Not to be that guy but you can easily find something a thousand times worse with suburbia than some measly data centers.

Those things eat up land at a much larger scale than anything else aside from farming or logging.

You took this from Reddit’s r/interestingasfuck and posted it to c/mildlyinteresting? Clearly neither is a good fit because this isn’t interesting at all.

Who will be first to act: Jesus or The Ents?

At least cloud compute will be cheap when everyone realises LLMs are pretty garbage

Looks like every aerial of any large scale development

I think the actually infuriating thing here is that subs like r/interestingasfuck were made because r/mildlyinteresting basically turned into “look at this thing I saw” without any critical evaluation. Those subs soon fell prey to the same shit. Unsurprisingly, it’s now infected the Lemmy communities too. “I saw this thing once” isn’t fucking mildly interesting. It’s fucking annoying.

In this instance I genuinely do not understand how photos of massive construction make anyone go “huh, that’s kinda interesting but not super interesting what a novelty.” If I’m super fucking gracious and OP has never ever seen satellite photos before or even considered the concept that could be slightly novel but that’s a fucking stretch.

As I said in the other post, don't be disingenuous with the summer/winter photos.

Also any commercial construction would look like this - warehouse, UPS shipping center, shopping center. Hell, a shopping center would be far worse.