{"id":33132,"date":"2025-12-07T13:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33132"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:55:23","slug":"data-centers-are-going-to-kill-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33132","title":{"rendered":"Data centers are going to kill us&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;it appears that build out of data centers everywhere you look to support AI is going to kill us&#8230;not only the huge amounts of water they use for cooling&#8230;it was estimated that one question to any AI uses 30 gallons of water&#8230;maybe that&#8217;s why Muskegon Lake is going dry&#8230;and just today, IBM&#8217;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&#8230;and when they go bust, that&#8217;s 8 trillion dollars that can&#8217;t be spent on infrastructure or housing&#8230;and your tax dollars are subsidizing most of it&#8230;so, we&#8217;ve decided&#8230;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&#8217;s lives better&#8230;I don&#8217;t think there will be a country left after we throw these assholes out&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it appears that build out of data centers everywhere you look to support AI is going to kill us&#8230;not only the huge amounts of water they use for cooling&#8230;it was estimated that one question to any AI uses 30 gallons of water&#8230;maybe that&#8217;s why Muskegon Lake is going dry&#8230;and just today, IBM&#8217;s CEO stated that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data centers are going to kill us&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4380,4381],"class_list":["post-33132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-data-centers","tag-trillions-wasted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33133,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33132\/revisions\/33133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}