A single AI data center could consume 5 million gallons of water daily New Jersey wants to make them report water consumption Opponents say the measure is redundant, could hurt industry
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New Jersey's AI data centers face new water usage bill - NewsBreak
A bill sitting on Gov. Phil Murphy's desk requires new thirsty data centers to disclose how much water and electricity they use, but it's getting p...
 Oh, whatever you do, don't hurt industry. Destroy our environment but don't hurt poor little old super-sensitive industry.
"From center-left Ezra Klein to right-wing Matt Walsh, the fertility panic is an elite fixation that is rooted in a human supremacist worldview and a deep fear of slowing growth." Modern relationship to Earth is fundamentally parasitic - regardless of whether societies are capitalist or socialist; Media resist degrowth in various stages.Their rejection reveals their lack of maturity in accepting responsibility for the ecological destruction we are causing
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The Elite's Fixation with Low Birth Rates | Samuel Miller McDonald - OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance
From center-left Ezra Klein to right-wing Matt Walsh, the fertility panic is an elite fixation that is rooted in a human supremacist worldview and ...
In the USA, "the AI boom is fueling a frenzy of data centers that are competing with residential homes for capital, power, water, and even sonic space. The result is a housing market stuck in neutral, with the potential for higher bills on the horizon, and neighborhoods kept awake by the hum of chillers designed to keep machines-not people-cool." https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/ai-s-hidden-side-effects-why-your-mortgage-21016539.php There are so many hidden costs to AI.
Big Tech on corporate welfare "Electricity bills are skyrocketing and water reserves are dwindling, yet Big Tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, and Amazon are thriving. They’ve secured billions in tax breaks while you foot the bill through higher rates and taxes to power their AI servers." Data centers are driving up utility costs. As companies like Amazon and Meta pour billions into data centers across the country, it’s raising electricity bills.
NIMBY residents of Bessemer, Alabama, demand transparency around plans for a hyperscale data center in their community. 2 million gallons of water per day needed to operate it, at least
Southern Environmental Law Center
Alabama data center proposal moves forward
Updated November 19 to reflect the latest Bessemer City Council decision. As data center growth shapes the South’s energy future, its overhype is...
 However, Google and the tech bros said that the gallons are made up of very teeny weeny drops of water, so because we're only talking about drops, then there's nothing to worry about at all, really.
Google is a master of deception and anti-transparency. A company that for years has claimed that its public water usage is a "trade secret" now tries to manipulate data to make it look like it doesn't use much water. Pure propaganda from the Be Evil Corp Google’s estimate of AI resource consumption leaves out too much
Google’s estimate of AI resource consumption leaves out too much – Computerworld
AI data centers are coming for your water Austin-based company says it plans to spend $165 billion on New Mexico data center campus near El Paso.
El Paso Matters
Austin-based company says it plans to spend $165 billion on New Mexico data center campus near El Paso. Here’s what to know.
BorderPlex Digital Assets says the company will result in 750 permanent jobs locally and $300 million in direct payments to Doña Ana County. Hereâ...
 El Paso County is experiencing extreme drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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EP County experiencing extreme drought conditions, EP Water is prepared with Drought Contingency Plan and EPFD gives advice
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso County is experiencing extreme drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. El Paso Water approved a...
AI can increase cognitive load. "Lisanne Bainbridge’s seminal Ironies of Automation published in 1983 observed that when users must evaluate uncertain outputs from automated systems, mental effort often goes up. This ‘automation bias paradox’ means that while automation can reduce physical effort, it may increase mental effort especially when trust in its accuracy is shaky."
Information Age
AI’s dirty secret no-one is talking about
The problem with hallucinations is…
Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions It wants to bury poop deep underground to counter all the pollution that its data centers generate.
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Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions
It wants to bury poop deep underground to counter all the pollution that its data centers generate.
"Humanity soon will be returning to low-power ways of organizing itself. I won’t make a detailed supportive argument for that statement here; I’ve done so for a quarter of a century in books and articles. Suffice it to say that fossil fuels are finite and rapidly depleting, and alternative energy sources cannot fully replace them. Therefore, our current size of population and scale of social organization will not be maintained. Humanity will inevitably downsize."
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Bioregioning Is Our Future
Humanity soon will be returning to low-power ways of organizing itself. And in our new age of tariff wars, the tide is already turning from global ...