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TommyT139

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5. And don't forget - adds to global warming
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:37 PM
Apr 2025

...and uses water in vast amounts, drawing down aquifers. One AI project needed so much energy that a nuclear power plant was restarted in Pennsylvania. Another company has gone back to burning coal.

Just curious -- there was no source link in this post. Was it written by the presumably-human poster, or was it generated by AI? If the latter, it should be marked as such, so we could all know that it is based off of stolen literary material, nonconsensually-scraped personal data, and private communications from people who only intended to chat with real human friends.

Edited to add links, because often my browser deleted text field content when I switch windows.
Nuclear:
Three Mile Island's reopening
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html
Other states too:
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/30/nuclear-plants-energy-ai-data-centers

Coal: Of course, Trump is thrilled.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-mining-electricity-ai-davos-36acbd0bb3a49eb3dc059b36f08aa573

Finally, please do not refer to it as "writer's block." Writer's block is a psychological label for what happens when people are writing. Saying this happens to machines is propaganda to make them more palatable. What you actually described is a human taking time to train the machine to "pass as human." So, thanks for helping the scammers who are using AI to cheat on tests, write more slop to sell online, and con people, especially elders, into thinking they are conversing with a friend or relative in need.

And to be clear, I'm not saying that people who use/train AI are the scum of the earth. After all, there are still Republicans out there.

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