AI data centers use so much energy and water:

[applegrove]

At this point, if mother nature were to kill us all, she could totally claim self-defense.

— ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected (@adelpreore.bsky.social) 2025-12-27T17:12:07.031Z

[rampartd]

1. why don't they put these things on ye ocean and use the waste heat for desalinization?

why don't they put them in orbit and use the vastness of space for cooling?

ai is a WEAPON in the class war. it is aimed at the working class.

[Maninacan]

2. Energy usage

Heard a radio segment this morning about Home solar. People are really going for it tax credit or not. They see electricity costs going up. An installer said they have seen ups and downs and expect a little downturn but plan on staying in business.

[Klarkashton]

3. Some really creepy stuff has made it into my social media feeds

It's being claimed that these data centers will actually lower electricity cost. Some bullshit arguments. It's obviously a propaganda effort.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. AI is just a flash in the pan

It offers a description of reality. For those who really understand, AI is just more noise.

[tmars505]

5. crash

do we remember the dot com crash? people are going to lose their shirts with when this boom crashes , and this crash will take the bitcoin down with it.

[mopinko]

6. meh. prolly will, but the dotcom 'bust' had a cause.

a ton of money was spent defusing the y2k bomb. after that passed, a lot of ppl lost their jobs.

[GreatGazoo]

7. Google, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Palantir, TSMC and the other majors will be here

10 years from now. Just like they survived and thrived the "dot com crash."

If Deep Seek and legacy media screaming "AI is a bubble!!" didn't pop it then maybe it isn't a bubble.

[GreatGazoo]

8. LOL! Sounds like a headline that AI would write!

What the hell is "a world's supply of bottled water"?!

"may have" Ha!

We are so screwed. They are using AI to write about AI.

ETA: NYC uses a massive green energy source -- Hydro-Quebec:

https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/hydro-quebecs-6-billion-new-york-line-on-track-for-2026-start/

[marked50]

9. A thought occurred to me about a strange similarity in the Science Fiction world to this AI stuff.

Along with the un-nerving thought of what AI can uncontrollably do and how it's a threat to our own existence and the massive amount of energy needs I remembered a SF predictor of sorts. One of my favorite movies- Forbidden Planet. Filmed in 1956. It was supposed to be a take-off of Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

For those who are not familiar with this movie, it tells a story of an extinct, very very advanced civilization (called the Krell) that created something that led to it's own destruction. I will not give details about how that happened because that is an important part of the story but in their technical development that consumed massive, massive means of energy creation.

All of this was discovered by our own race in space exploration.

An interesting connection of fore-warning