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  • For one thing I think record keeping.

    Like. Part of the problem is he’s lying to investors. He hasn’t ever really cared about what the general public thinks except if it affects what investors think of his product. And it’s important to keep records of what he (and the others like him) says because eventually investors will want to sue (which is the only comeuppance these types ever get) if he doesn’t make good on his lies.

    Keeping track of the lies proves that he did lie. Doesn’t do any of us any good if investors believe him and he manages to make a deal with them to sweep the lies under the rug in exchange for something that’s short term lucrative. But that’s why.

    The general masses just need drama as far as I can tell. Hate sells. Well, that and I think people like him want to keep people like us afraid so we’re more controllable.













  • Police used a series of drive-by shootings as a reason to secretly install a bunch of flock cameras without telling the city counsel or the public.

    It is unclear if the Mayor knew about the deal.

    City council found out from complaints, investigated, and paused funding for the cameras until they could talk to flock about security and public safety concerns.

    Mayor decided to declare a state of emergency to override city counsel.

    City counsel is now suing the Mayor.

    The cameras are still being funded and still operational.

    Sounds to me like more public officials need to be recalled via non confidence vote. Starting with this mayor.


  • My question was based on the amount of water used by a data center (closed loop) that is used in the closed loop vs used to run the rest of the data center.

    In my little bit of searching, I got some stats that suggest that in a closed loop system the closed loop cooling only uses about 25% of the data center’s total usage.

    But either way, the take away that some people will take from the article’s title and contents is that these data centers are AI data centers. But non-AI data centers are still being built as more and more people gain Internet access.

    This assumption colors how people will take this news and whether it’s “good or bad”.




  • I have one question. Where exactly are you expecting them to get that amount of gray water?

    A data center uses approximately 600,000 gallons of water annually. Of that, it looks like the closed loop cooling system uses 25% of that (150,000 gallons).

    Where are they slurping up 150,000 gallons of gray water from? They aren’t keeping rain tanks on the premises to feed into the system when they start the whole thing up. Are they just slurping it up from a lake? Why is that preferable? And let’s say they do that? Algae bloom in the cooling system causing them to gobble up 150,000 gallons more water is better?

    Even construction sites (who are used this water in the article by the way) use potable water because not doing so effects how much time it takes for concrete to set.

    What I’m saying is, yeah, data centers as a whole for AI are bullshit. By the same token, the internet you use everyday (without any AI use at all) also uses data centers and they also use the same kinds of resources (because the majority of water used in AI that effects the environment detrimentally comes from training models, not from AI use from the general public).

    So are you also mad at all the other data centers or just the AI ones?