And some people have ideas about "waste" that have absolutely no bearing on reality. It isn't an honest difference of opinion, it's that they believe things which are factually untrue and will shoot at you for disagreeing:

April 07, 2026 - 01:33 UTC

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Unfortunately, every data center is going to be different; and most aren't going to be sucking up drinking water and some aren't going to be outputting heat and even others aren't going to be allowed to buy energy without paying for more peak generation.

And not all are AI.
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There is no way to run compute power without converting that electricity to heat. Period.
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It's not just about waste. People see the same reality and think different things about it. We don't need these data centers. They use resources that could be helping people to make things that are pointless at best. They're bad for humanity over all, so they shouldn't exist.
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Data centers are useless and are only accelerating us killing the planet so maybe you should be quiet
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*Some* datacenters have uses.
The bad part is consumers don't have a choice of how they're used
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you used a datacenter to make that post (you are using one to see this post)
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