E RosalieMar 15
Just so we’re 1000% clear: no state or local government should be giving financial incentives to build a data center. If anything, it should come with increased taxation—because wherever they go, they gobble up water and energy. They should be paying locals for the privilege of being tolerated.
Show threadgrrl_aex

@erosalie

How do you "pay the locals" for vanishing their local aquifer?

Practically speaking, both energy and water are limited resources--resources which, *prior* to this "AI" boom, were both already under massive pressure.

Does the cost/benefit to society as a whole pencil out for the massive additional load Generative/LLM mega-data centers add to resource demand/comsumption?

A: No. It does not.

Mar 15 at 5:50pmWeb
Show threadChris JohnsonMar 16
@kitkat_blue @erosalie Good point. Many (most?) aquifers don't recharge on a human time scale, but on a geologic timescale of centuries, millennia, epochs.