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We all see this coming, but the billionaires and our state/county/city leaders assure us everything will be fair and fine.
Same deal with water. It will be 100 degrees and data centers will be draining local water supplies, while residents will be told not to water their flowers or take too many showers.
Fuck all this.
I love that their solution is to not use the thing that the data centers are supposed to be for.
Oh don't worry, people in Silicon Valley won't feel the restrictions and will be running their OpenClaw-type chained agents all night long doing absolutely nothing of worth.
I'll be so sad when the CEOs get Luigi'd.
California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.
Same play here.
California also has the stupidest water rights with “use it or lose” it clauses that counters any incentives to become more efficient. A couple families control a ridiculous amount of water rights.
The problem is that data centers don't need water, they need cooling, and water is suitable for that because it's the cheapest. They could do the cooling in many other ways, but it costs money
Please sir...can I have some more....electricity
said the poor school to the billionaires
So it's official now. AI comes before schools, and before children. Welp. So much for thinking about the children.
The children only matter in election cycles
And on their private islands
And when it comes to starting moral panics to strip away rights.
and before they're born.
The perception that children matter only exists in election cycles.
They never really matter.
Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
Because actual intelligence doesn't vote conservative.
In Virginia during the fifa World Cup there are a lot of pro data center ads funded by a group that was created for this purpose called Virginia Connects.
It’s the usual shitbags lying to the public to make it sound like data centers are good
Are they in cahoots with the PACs that support pro AI candidates? (Are they the same groups? I really don't know.)
Killdozer needs to come back...
Improve the cooling system first. We are talking about Marvin, right?
If you Google the model number their AI will sometimes list the 20 tons of armor as an option like you could just order it that way.
We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.
Well, we are working on it, cuz.
Remember, data centers need internet to function. Usually.
I prefer calling them clanker lairs
Wretched hives of scum and villAIny
We need ~~Anonymous~~ to do something about data centers.
Don't wait for others to save us.
Are they keeping profits from data centres away from schools?
Educating the kids would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The only training they need is how to mow the grass around the data centres.
I actually saw a robotic mower doing that job just a few months ago. I think it was around a school.
Well then we just let them starve and blame them for being homeless.
Don’t need school if you have chat gpt /s
I guess they could light a data center on fire to keep warm and not run their heaters? Win/win?
(Also I hope it’s very obvious to everyone this is a joke, I’m not trying no to incite or encourage violence in any way at all).
I'm just amazed at the grotesquely huge amounts of copper they have in those datacenters.
I also hope that data centers "don't" get burnt down. How "un"satisfying would that be. While I'm at it, I hope no one kills the trillionaire.
Well.. duh. Data center makes dollar, schools costs dollar
County with 37 datacenters can go fuck itself with a cactus.
here come the brownouts motherfuckers...
But also, don't forget to teach AI and use AI in your school!
https://www.vaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HenricoGenerativeAIPreparingForDigitalAge.pdf
An interesting one there, how can schools consumption be compared to that of Data centers
Maybe they just want people to waste time pointing spiderman fingers at eachother for not turning off their computers.
I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO. I really hope this kind of stuff wakes people up enough to do something about it.
No. Next fucking question. I'd rather data centers have brown-outs than schools.
I just yelled "what!" outload.
