Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say
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inb4 opposition to AI datacenters is domestic terrorism
Do we need to cut down an old growth forest for this?
No, but we’re gonna.
Will we have the juice to turn it on before 2037?
Well, not real energy, but the markets have started selling us ‘magic wattage’ and derivatives our engineers assure me will have our machines functioning at peak efficiency.