What are your thoughts on data centers?

[QuickTwist]

This is a topic that I don't know a whole lot about. I've just heard a few things.

That is the idea that data centers are taking up huge portions of electricity and power and water and land. What are your thoughts about this?

Personally, I think the elites are going to elite and they are not really going to ask us, just like they didn't ask us about 5g.

It's the machine that keeps on turning. Is there a way to do something about this? And what is your take on it?

Feel free to link to articles and such about it.

 

[TomasM]

I don't believe the United States has a choice but to implement. The president has committed to making AI and crypto currency a reality. He's attempting to re-establish the manufacturing sector in the US but that is going to take a significant amount of time for factories to come online even if he does in fact have the commitment from foreign investors--as he suggests.

Similarly, the US has seen a large number of tech workers lose work from many of the Big Tech organizations. These people are highly intelligent and qualified but don't have a place to work so AI gives them the ability to combine many information technologies disciplines without having to fully understand each in depth - this makes innovation a realistic option in the event that IP is protected (it hasn't been because of China).

Finally, if the US doesn't win the AI race then this could be catastrophic in the long term. Of course, the amount of money these tech companies are committing is far greater than they can possibly earn back (at least that is the word on the street) and that tells me that someone is going to be squirreling away some fraudulent money or there's a plan to alter the entire economic system (reset). Given the debt loads by countries around the world, I'm expecting a reset but we don't currently know when or how that will be done without damaging the trust of the upper class across the entire Western world (not including the elites--obviously).

So, to answer your question, yes the elites and government are pushing the datacenters and that is not going to stop unless someone decides they want the US and the rest of the western world to implode.

Side note: It would be nice if John Maynard Keynes was here to answer for his great idea about printing debt back during the great depression. Of course, I'm sure he would blame governmental fiscal policy for the outcome - as if that couldn't be seen like a kid looking at an ice cream truck.

 

[Asa]

I'm anti Gen Ai, and anti data center.