Well…as you know, I’ve done a few of these about what scourges data centers are that are popping up all over this country using more water than cities and raising electric rates with their piggish use of energy…but, there is a new idea out there that Oregon has just started to use that is just how states should do it…Oregon has started to charge these electrical sucks the true cost of their gluttony by raising the rates for them by almost 28% while lowering them for the residences that are nearby by almost 5%…now this doesn’t account for all of the water these stupid data centers use but it does start to get to the true cost of energy they use and stops the subsidy that homeowners have been paying to the owners of these useless pieces of crap…and every damn one of them is based on the pipe dream that AI is going to be the next big thing when even ceo’s of some of these companies are admitting the mistake they’ve made investing trillions in this unstable useless technology…finally, the true costs of these white elephants are being recognized and states are starting to ban the building of any new ones…I wonder what these buildings will be used for when they go broke? Geez…
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Too many races..
Well…not sure if there were too many races today or if they just aren’t as much fun without having cocktails, but I’m a little bored with the Coke 600 so here I am…I did read an article this afternoon about the backlash about huge AI data centers that are sprouting like poison ivy across the country, the resources they suck up, and the costs increases for people who live near them…so is this one a political one? Hmmm…in the article they talk about a town in Arizona that has seen their electrical rates go up by 278% after a data center was built there and now the electric company has warned residents that they may lose electric service altogether since they have limited capacity and they’d rather sell it to the data center since they make much more money doing that…and even the tech companies are warning that building all these centers is a bubble that is soon going to burst leaving hundreds of huge empty buildings that will have no use…and all the tax breaks these towns gave them are going to be worthless as they declare bankruptcy and walk away from these white elephants…and don’t get me started on the worthlessness of AI…it’s a nothing technology that adds nothing to online productivity…it’s only purpose is to make money for the tech companies..for now…
Data centers are going to kill us…
Well…it appears that build out of data centers everywhere you look to support AI is going to kill us…not only the huge amounts of water they use for cooling…it was estimated that one question to any AI uses 30 gallons of water…maybe that’s why Muskegon Lake is going dry…and just today, IBM’s CEO stated that with an 8 trillion dollar investment in these data centers, companies would need to net 800 billion dollars a year just to pay the interest on that investment…and when they go bust, that’s 8 trillion dollars that can’t be spent on infrastructure or housing…and your tax dollars are subsidizing most of it…so, we’ve decided…or I should say the idiot trump and his minions have decided that giving money to billionaires is more important than healthcare, food, housing and real infrastructure that would make people’s lives better…I don’t think there will be a country left after we throw these assholes out…geez…