Gold mining is truly evil Yellowknife’s Giant Gold Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned

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Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned

Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.

This is the story of modern civilization. As we poison our environment we downplay, ignore and deliberately hide the impacts. All for growth. All for greed.

Google 2021: 12.7 billion liters water 2024: 30 billion liters of water “These are some of the richest companies in America, and maybe across the world. To ask them to make sure that residents don’t pay more in terms of their electric or water bills, [or] to do right by choosing the right energy sources to not pollute the community or the planet, we feel isn’t too much to ask.” https://www.wpr.org/news/water-energy-use-data-centers-midwest-great-plains

"In the age of AI and intelligent devices, smartphones, laptops, and Internet-of-Things gadgets are designed with increasingly shorter life cycles, fuelled by relentless software updates and aggressive marketing. What was once a five-to-seven-year lifespan for a device is rapidly shrinking to two or three years. When your smartphone or laptop begins to malfunction after two years, your first impulse is often to discard it and buy a new one."

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"The first thing you need to know to fully grasp what appears to be happening to Lewis is that large language models absorbed huge amounts of the internet. It’s why they’re good at astrology, predisposed to incel-style body dysmorphia, and oftentimes talk like a redditor. Think of ChatGPT as a big shuffle button of almost everything we’ve ever put online (with a few guardrails to keep it from turning into MechaHitler)."

Garbage Day

The tech bros are making themselves sick

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"In Nevada, the country’s driest state, the recent growth of generative artificial intelligence has put increased attention on data centers’ power demands and the water needed to cool servers. This comes as Lake Mead risks hitting crisis levels, and more groundwater has been signed away in parts of Northern Nevada than is actually available."

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Southern Nevada data centers used a ton of water in 2024. Here’s how

Google’s site in Henderson had the highest estimated water use in 2024 at roughly 352 million gallons.

92 Percent of People Don’t Check Their AI Answers, a New Report Warns Just exactly as Big Tech wants it. https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/are-you-too-trusting-of-ai-answers-92-percent-of-people-dont-check-it-for-accuracy/91209990

Data centers make electricity more expensive for everyone around them Big Tech is on corporate welfare. We're all paying to subsidize the richest and most powerful companies in the world https://www.fastcompany.com/91368903/ai-data-centers-require-massive-amounts-of-power-making-electricity-more-expensive-for-everyone-around-them

In Johor alone, projected water demand from existing and planned facilities would exceed 673 million litres per day. In 2024, Malaysian authorities received 101 new data centre applications, with a combined water demand exceeding 808 million litres per day. https://www.thinkchina.sg/economy/true-price-ai-water-and-energy-demands-behind-asias-data-centre-boom

Bitcoin criminals stealing electricity Malaysia suffers $1 billion in losses in electricity theft linked to illegal bitcoin mining. The government has carried out multiple enforcement actions over the years, but to no avail. Countries like Iran, Russia, and Kazakhstan have faced similar issues.

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Malaysia Hit With $1B Loss From Underground Bitcoin Mining Activity

Malaysia, a country where Bitcoin mining is heavily regulated, has lost over $1 billion in electricity theft due to illegal mining.