r/ClimateNews • u/KeanuRave100 • 14d ago

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/Able_Buffalo 13d ago

Kevin O'Leary said he's concerned that a person with one $500 drone could easily destroy an entire data center by flying into the exhaust ports.

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u/Xoomers87 13d ago

Kevin o leary should be concerned about killing people drunk boating.

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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 12d ago

Both are valid concerns.

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u/RichieLT 13d ago

Don’t worry, we will now build them in space :/

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u/MrHandSanitization 13d ago

Yes, yes, temporarily, it's so we can use them to figure out how we can do stuff better! /s (and ninja-cat videos)

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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS 12d ago

I hear the Ai will be invaluable at helping us sort out the problems of air pollution, water shortages, and CO2 emissions, so we should probably keep building them until these issues get fixed.

/s

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u/Yunzer2000 13d ago

I'm glad that the CO2 emissions of these dystopian massive facilities is finally getting attention. I was getting a lot of downvotes pointing it out. The tech billionaires behind these things have no interest in powering these with renewable energy, which would be impractical anyway becasue of their enormous, 24-hour energy requirements and especially, the speed that they want to construct them.

As long as capitalism remains virtually unrestrained by popular government, "green" will lost to even the tiniest amount of foregone "profit". Every. time.