"In a detailed report released last week, titled The Urgent Case Against Data Centers,
#FWW pointed to some of the 'documented harms caused by AI and data centers,' including:
- Enormous
#energy footprints: A single hyperscale data center can consume as much energy as 2 million US households.
- A lifeline for
#FossilFuels: The thirst for fuel is being met by keeping old
#coal-fired power plants running and by building new natural gas ones. [And restarting old
#NuclearPlants]
- Skyrocketing electricity costs: Increased
#EnergyDemand can raise residential rates, which soared 31% from 2020 to 2025 (compared to 4% from 2015 to 2020).
- Drained water resources: By 2028, AI data centers could use as much water as 18.5 million households, just for cooling their servers.
- An investment bubble: A handful of companies are investing in one another and increasingly turning to risky debt structures to hide the threat of the bubble.
- A litany of other harms: This includes massive amounts of electronic waste (
#EWaste), unrelenting noise pollution, loss of
#farmland, political instability from deepfake videos, lost revenue from data center tax incentives, and child endangerment from
#AI #chatbots."
#NoDatacenters #NoAI
#NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution
#AISucks #USPol
