Construction uses concrete and steel and other natural resources, as well as using gas to run the heavy equipment to build.
Large centers take away natural land that could be used as carbon sinks but instead are concrete heat traps.
There are more hits to the environment, but I’m not going to lay them out. Just looking at one source of possible energy use, which they aren’t actually using since many are in the US and not in France, is stupid.
Also, to your pseudo-intellectual “gotcha” points about thinking AI was a waste so how can billionaires profit: just because it doesn’t make money in the long run doesn’t mean billionaires aren’t making a TON of money in the short run. Long term losses will be born by the public and not private money-holders. And even if AI is mostly useless, billionaires will still lay off employees only to learn that AI was in fact worthless, but the people who lost their jobs will fall further into debt and will be slaves to that debt.
You do realize, don’t you, that there is more to hurting the environment than just energy use, right?
Water use is through the roof, and water is kind of useful for making food and keeping humans alive: https://theconversation.com/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much-262901
Construction uses concrete and steel and other natural resources, as well as using gas to run the heavy equipment to build.
Large centers take away natural land that could be used as carbon sinks but instead are concrete heat traps.
There are more hits to the environment, but I’m not going to lay them out. Just looking at one source of possible energy use, which they aren’t actually using since many are in the US and not in France, is stupid.
Also, to your pseudo-intellectual “gotcha” points about thinking AI was a waste so how can billionaires profit: just because it doesn’t make money in the long run doesn’t mean billionaires aren’t making a TON of money in the short run. Long term losses will be born by the public and not private money-holders. And even if AI is mostly useless, billionaires will still lay off employees only to learn that AI was in fact worthless, but the people who lost their jobs will fall further into debt and will be slaves to that debt.