Non-AI datacenters aren’t massive fuckoff Complexes that spew pollution (noise and atmospheric) into the surrounding area and triple your electric bill. It’s the massive hyperscale AI datacenters that are the problem.
That’s true, loads of non-AI datacenters are also environmentally destructive noise pollution machines, which also needs to be dealt with, but hyperscale AI datacenters are much more environmentally destructive much more of the time. You’re right tho
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Non-AI datacenters aren’t massive fuckoff Complexes that spew pollution (noise and atmospheric) into the surrounding area and triple your electric bill. It’s the massive hyperscale AI datacenters that are the problem.
They still are, and it’s been known and talked about for years. All of these predate the AI boom:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/data-centres-dirty-energy-secret/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120927113253/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20190821212342/https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler/2018/04/15/chandler-tech-company-hums-along-and-noise-annoying-residents/504641002/
That’s true, loads of non-AI datacenters are also environmentally destructive noise pollution machines, which also needs to be dealt with, but hyperscale AI datacenters are much more environmentally destructive much more of the time. You’re right tho