Lauren WeinsteinOne of the Big Lies you'll hear proponents of AI data centers spout is that if you stand in their way you will block progress toward new cancer cures and other medical progress. This is total bull. The vast amount of this AI data center capacity is aimed not at that kind of AI work, but at LLM generative AI SLOP: Creating sexualized and other deep fakes, automated phishing scams, misinformation-filled search query answers that starve sites of views, agentic agents that destroy your data and wallet while the AI firms take no responsibility, AI chatbots that urge users toward murder and suicide, cheating machines for kids in school, vibe coding systems that generate garbage code and create an excuse for mass layoffs -- and so on. That's the reality of Big Tech LLM AI, and that is what these horrific data centers are mostly all about.
tribactamthey always wheel this one out. Researchers have been using machine learning for decades before the rise of AI slop (chemo- and bio-informatics).
It can't be said often enough, these data centres are about control, surveillance and ensuring stupidity.
Oh, and in any case, don't expect to get treated with the medicines discovered using specialised ML systems - you won't be able to afford them.