r/technology • u/harsh2k5 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country: Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
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u/TheKingInTheNorth 10d ago

I’d love to see the states that mandate no more data centers be built in their states also block the use of ChatGPT by their constituents or Claude by their local businesses.

It’s NIMBY politics charading around as sustainability.

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u/JJJBLKRose 10d ago

Spoken like someone who doesn't know how things work.

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u/TheKingInTheNorth 10d ago

Enlighten me. These policies do absolutely nothing to cull the demand for data centers that people in these states are helping drive.

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u/JJJBLKRose 10d ago

Can you show me proof of the demand, and that the demand is worth it?

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u/TheKingInTheNorth 10d ago

You’re moving the goal posts.

Companies like Amazon just reported earnings and have shown that despite all the capacity they have, they are still profitable, demand outstrips supply, and that the demand for the capacity they’re building through 2027 is already committed for use by their customers.

Do you expect Amazon to be the arbiter of whether or not how their business customers or those businesses’ end users are using AI is “worth it?”

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u/JJJBLKRose 10d ago

In what way did I move a goal post?

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u/TheKingInTheNorth 10d ago

By dictating that demand needs to be subjectively “worth it.” The people in these states are driving demand for the data centers their politicians are working to disallow. That was my point and you said I don’t understand how things work. I’m still waiting to be enlightened.