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  • Op Ed: AI data centers are not your friend

    Op Ed: AI data centers are not your friend

    We get it, people are excited about the “golden age” that we have supposedly entered, at least according to Trump. The promise of AI powered everything is very exciting—at least to people who don’t exercise their minds, don’t exercise their bodies, and don’t exercise their rights. We get it. But it shouldn’t be exciting. It should be downright horrifying.

    Why? how much time do you have? Here are a few examples:

    AI data centers require ridiculous amounts of energy. There is one being proposed for Wyoming that will require five times the amount of energy that is needed for all of Wyoming’s current residents.

    AI data centers do not create jobs. Zuckerberg built a 5 million square-foot data center in Louisiana and there are only 500 jobs, and they are so advanced that they have to import people from other countries to fill them.

    AI data centers steal jobs from working class Americans. The more data centers, the more computing power, the more jobs will be automated. This is the end of the American dream as we know it.

    AI data centers occupy massive swaths of land that should not be handed over to technocrats, but rather given to the people to build affordable housing and other amenities for the people. The rich people are already on multiple hounds and businesses. Why are we giving them more land ? Especially when the purpose of the land is to replace all of us?

    Those are just a few of many examples why AI data centers are not our friends (nor the people who build them and run them) and we should not be excited about them.

    Most mystifying to me is why so many people continue to support government officials, including the current president, who support the construction of mass AI data centers? We should not be supporting these people, we should be throwing all of them out of office, since they are accomplices to the greedy, soulless, Godless technocrats who are throwing all of us out of the American dream.

    Why do people love people who are destroying them? For the life of me, I don’t understand it.