Story as old as time: business deals presented to the public that promise prosperity and progress for the village but intentionally vague when it comes to analysis and the true trade-off of benefits versus risks. History repeats itself and we as a society don’t always heed the lessons we should have learned. Data centers are not new but the rapid speed of AI integrating into our world has companies searching for large rural areas to plant more data centers.
AI is changing many aspects of our society and offering endless promises but what is the human impact? Large data centers are simply sucking the resources out of our physical world and polluting it. They guzzle immense amounts of water in areas suffering drought and depleting water supply conditions.
One center can use 7 million gallons of water in one day.
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