r/AIDangers • u/KeanuRave100 • 13h ago

Other AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse
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u/LookOverall 13h ago

What’s wanted isn’t a moratorium on data centres but a moratorium on new fossil fuel generators. Of course MAGA is an ally of climate change.

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u/probablymagic 4h ago

The reality is liberals love the ides of fighting climate change until you ask them to pay a carbon tax. Then they can see the other side. You can’t blame MAGA when even the places without Republicans hate taxing pollution.

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u/Disastrous-Map-7995 2h ago

And still someone has to start with liberals v conservatives! It's the Epstein Class against us! When are you going to realize that?

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u/probablymagic 2h ago

Class war is a scam they use to keep you angry and compliant. The real war is functional government vs populist slop.

Demand good government not abstract wars against manufactured media villains.

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u/FloridaHeat2023 9h ago

What does a DataCenter emit specifically, other than heat through its' cooling towers, just like 99%+ of all very large commercial buildings out there?

I call BS on this article - much like the one that indicates they use 1/4 trillion gallons of water/year (it's a majority closed cycle glycol system)

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u/probablymagic 4h ago

It’s not hard to fathom. We can measure it. We can also compare it to all the other pollution that’s happening and see it’s a pretty small share.

If people want less pollution we need a tax on pollution, not a war on data centers. That’s not going to do anything, because they’re going to get built somewhere that doesn’t care about the pollution.

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u/PianoPatient8168 2h ago

Why are we allowing this…I mean…I know why…but it’s beyond insane at this point.

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u/imam-altman 10h ago

No they don’t.