sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThe Anti-AI Data Center Rebellion Keeps Growing Bigger - Public support for AI infrastructure has fallen sharply across party linesmarketwise.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarevillainy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·3 days ago Americans are turning against AI data centers over rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs. Discover what’s driving the backlash. Is it the rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs?
minus-squaresudo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 days agoTo be fair, it could also be the clean water consumption, eco system destruction, extensive local warming effects, and noise pollution too.
minus-squareCalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 days agoNot to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.
minus-squareandallthat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoIt’s not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone’s job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either
Is it the rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs?
To be fair, it could also be the clean water consumption, eco system destruction, extensive local warming effects, and noise pollution too.
Not to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.
It’s not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone’s job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either