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Exactly this. It is not that AI generates meaningless slop, it also destroys the environment and increases costs to populations near data centers…
Dont forget the decimated value of the houses nearby.
From a stupidly high price like 1.3million to just horrible loss values like 1.25 million.
They're not building these datacenters near million dollar homes. It's the average person who suffers.
Average homes cost that much now.
Not in the vast majority of the country, no. They do not.
Exactly my point. It's sort parallel rather than pro or against.
It's a self solving problem. As soon as people pay the actual cost of AI, usage will drop automatically. It's just because investors are willing to burn money inflating the bubble is the resaon AI is being used as much as it is.
I'm using Opencode and the free Deepseek in it pretty much daily, how is this destroying the environment and increasing costs to other people?
It feels like there's a push on the internet against AI because it's a largely western product.
Look up datacenter water usage and utility pricing - not to mention so many studies showing using AI makes you dumb and unable to think critically.
Because you are using exponentially more energy than you did before AI. And all for something that at best could have been made without AI, and at worst is completely frivolous and useless.
And this at a point in human history where we desperately need to cut down on energy usage.