Below are posts associated with the “data centers” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Mason County official says data center could bring 400 jobs averaging $80,000; would require massive amounts of power and water
If this is so great for the community, why won’t the company even identify itself publicly?
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky could be on the eve of a data center boom. But in Mason County details are sketchy. • Kentucky Lantern
Helpful reminder that data center problems are not just hypothetical—they’re potentially local.
🔗 linkblog: UK government suggests deleting files to save water
I genuinely think it’s useful to remember that non-AI datacenters are also contributing to the climate crisis, but that doesn’t let AI off the hook. It’s like saying “sure, we’re spending far beyond our means, but have you considered that we’re already in debt?
🔗 linkblog: ‘Hyperscale’ data center project drawing resistance in rural Oldham County
Data centers are coming to Kentucky, and that has me worried.
🔗 linkblog: AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'
If AI is indeed going to help us reduce emissions, it seems to me that that will be the product of targeted, scientific and industrial use of AI, not shoving AI into a load of commercial products. Are these commercial companies using AI to figure out how to reduce emissions? If not (and maybe even if so), it seems disingenuous to express optimism that their increased energy use will be magically cancelled out by someone else.