Andrew LokenauthMay 26

The only thing growing faster than AI right now is how much regular people absolutely hate it.

I've never seen public opinion turn this quickly.

48 data center projects worth $156 billion got blocked last year and 20 were canceled in the first quarter of this year.

Tech executives are getting booed during college graduation speeches. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home.

Show threadAndrew LokenauthMay 26

In Missouri, voters ousted 4 city council members. The reason? They'd approved a $6 billion data center one week earlier.

360,000 Americans have joined Facebook groups fighting data center expansion.

Energy bills are rising because data centers drain power grids. Wells are running dry near server farms. People fear losing their jobs. The revolt is here.

Show threadLinda Rose SmitMay 26
@FluentInFinance we should all get off the web. Dump our laptops. Stop social media. Use pen and paper again.
Show threadpunIssuerMay 27
@lindarosesmit @FluentInFinance depends; staying on the Fediverse is probably fine
Show threadLinda Rose SmitMay 27
@punissuer @FluentInFinance sure. I am not leaving either. But we should realise our use of socmed etc is part of the problem.
Show threadpunIssuerMay 27
@lindarosesmit please excuse my ignorance, which problem, exactly?
Show threadLinda Rose Smit
@punissuer We are constantly online, we are saving our emails in teh inbox, we are using a lot of power to watch catpics...
May 27 at 11:40amWeb
Show threadpunIssuerMay 27
@lindarosesmit good thing our electricity grid gets greener constantly, then. If it weren't for the LLM bubble, digital technologies would have kept using roughly the same amount of energy each year, while providing more and more services.
One of the biggest changes one could make re: greenhouse gas emission, would be to switch to a plant-based diet...
Show threadLinda Rose SmitMay 27
@punissuer yep there us always room to reduce one’s footprint. Plant based in place. Water diwn. Gas down wtc etc.