How do You Feel About AI (artificial intelligence)?

[Mike Pierson]

I know there's no turning back now and AI is here to stay and as much as I have found it to be entertaining and even useful at times... I have to say, a part of me is having a hard time with it.

Just read the following article and it really hits home being that all this is going on in our backyard.

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters

www.theguardian.com

The fact that they’re taking over all that land is disconcerting but the issue of the water use could be worse not to mention the amount of people coming followed by increased costs for everything.

 

[wayoflife]

Yep. Just like windmill farms taking over land.

I wonder if the data centers are really even needed or we're just being told that.

For us, it's solar farms as far as the eye can see. I mean, who gives a fuck about land in the desert, right?

As far as data centers go, they're necessary for AI or at least, from what we're being told.

 

[wayoflife]

how quickly they jumped off their virtue signaling "green" bandwagon.
The estimates for water usage are way below what will actually be used and can't wait to see how they plan to dispose of the environmental waste.
This should also be forced to produce double electrical needs so the rest can help lower the bills of the people that are about to be affected with a much higher bill

Right?! Saving the planet apparently takes a back seat to AI.

The amount of water needed is astronomical and they are taking it from a place that has very little of it. I'm not typically an indian rights kind of guy but the concerns that the local tribes have is legit.

As far as electricity goes, the amount needed for AI is mind blowing. Already, natural gas plants that were slated to be shut down are staying online, more are now scheduled to be built and they're tearing up the desert to make massive solar plants and build infrastructure needed to facilitate all of it. And yes, areas that have data centers DO have higher electric bills.

All this is just so depressing.

 

[wayoflife]

The fact that they’re taking over all that land is disconcerting but the issue of the water use could be worse not to mention the amount of people coming followed by increased costs for everything.

THIS ^^^ I'm not even concerned with the land that's getting swallowed up to build these things, it's the amount of water they take and electricity needed and all the additional land destruction created to make it all possible that bothers me.

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

I know there's no turning back now and AI is here to stay and as much as I have found it to be entertaining and even useful at times... I have to say, a part of me is having a hard time with it.

Just read the following article and it really hits home being that all this is going on in our backyard.

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west

Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters

www.theguardian.com

A lot of tech workers are surely moving in from California.

 

[jeeeep]

A lot of tech workers are surely moving in from California.

AI data centers, AI will run them, they may not hire more than 100 people to have physical presence 24x7.

If I were to bet, there will be more security than data employees

 

[WJCO]