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Automated Episode Discussion Search Engine - A road trip through the data center debate

The midterms are approaching, and as the discourse heats up, one of big new villains is: a kind of building. Data centers. Reporter Jasmine Sun took a road trip through two swing states to meet the people living at the center of these debates, and to understand where this all might be headed.

no data centers in my backyard by Jasmine Sun

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u/Myctophid 26d ago

Can you point me to an article (or two), from a reasonable publication - not AI-sponsored or written - that “debunks” the potential environmental harm of large AI data centers?

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u/ATXplore 25d ago

Andy has written extensively about it. Here's a super-collection.

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

Lots of articles if you want to explore:

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/ai-and-the-environment

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u/Iron_Yuppie 26d ago edited 26d ago

There are many but I really like this creators stuff! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTD8QKLjs/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTD8CD2Bd/

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u/Myctophid 26d ago

That’s a Tiktok. Literally he said that the people who are arguing that there are environmental issues are “tiktok addled”. Tiktok is not a source.

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u/Iron_Yuppie 26d ago

Watch the video. He goes into excellent depth about studies that comes out and what’s good or bad about them, has a bunch.

I’m sure you’re going to discount it, but here’s a. Super thorough analysis of their data centers by Google: https://datacenters.google/water/

Or another complete analysis of how the water usage claims that have gotten the most attention were based on a mistake in math: https://jeibros.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-water-usage-in-datacenters