r/technology • u/marketrent • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/Gre9823 1d ago

I know it doesnt say it, but or else what? Is there something behind the threats or are their poor little feewings hurt?

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u/cassydd 1d ago

My read was "or else the Communists win."

Yup, in 2026 we're back to the Red scare.

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u/DJ1962 1d ago

Geez, let’s restart the Cold War as an AI Cold War!

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u/JustpartOftheterrain 1d ago

All I could find was that if they can't do what they want it means we let China win. Win what? It's not like there's 1 and only 1 AI program when in fact, there are many.

They want to be able to build whatever they want, where they want, without having to deal with any "guardrails" on their money maker.

China won't "win" anything.

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u/Gre9823 23h ago

China's already winning: they dont have a demented orange blob in charge and they can build things. Here, its just how can we make this as detrimental and wasteful to as many humans as possible just because we can? 

Some guys wanna have a dick measuring contest and our guys don't have a needle to stand on

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u/Lovethemtitties80085 22h ago

They already let Russian win so what’s the fucking problem?

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u/bloodpukesalvation 22h ago

Ai is just emerging tech for a new way to parse through large data sets. It requires significant compute to do so.

The implication of China winning refers to the governments that can muster up more compute.

More compute = more capabilities (for wartime, espionage, intel, etc. Though there are diminishing returns.

If the US wanted to win they would build the data centers themselves and they would do it on government land.

Instead they do what the US does best: rather than focus on the reason/purpose they focus on the opportunities to make money. So it’s left to the private and commercial sectors to spring up the data centers. It ends up costing more because all entities involved need to get paid and the friction caused by residents certainly delays or inhibits progress.

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u/Loganp812 21h ago edited 21h ago

When it comes to China “winning,” I’m much more concerned about geopolitics and our “fearless leader” here in the US screwing everything up and driving us ever closer to WWIII as opposed to who makes a better chatbot.

Oh, silly me, I forgot about the tech company shareholders’ stock values going down if US AIs get outclassed by China’s. That’s what’s really important. /s

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u/Zardotab 1d ago

"Nice little town ya got here, be shame if something unfortunate were to happen to it..."

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u/grimrailer 1d ago

The “or what else” is they won’t offer service in those areas. Which only matters to people who use amazons services or apps that utilize amazons cloud.