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A Boring Dystopia
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Imagine complaining about the water a data center uses in Texas but being totally fine with the billions of gallons it uses to cool it's two nuclear power stations. Yes I looked it up, yes it's a ridiculous hypocrisy and yes it would be lovely if people stopped falling for clickbait like this.
Yes, AI is as necessary as providing power. They are certainly the same. Let me just refrigerate my food using AI. Oh shit. The power is gone.
In a state that uses 28% of it's power on air conditioning? Interesting...
People in a hot part of the country use air conditioning? Quick, ask GPT for the reason!