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2026-05-29 21:06 UTC
@joachim@boitam.eu @Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @ProcessParsnip@mastodon.ie Also not counting the deaths from increased emissions from data centers (https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/analyzing-air-pollution-health-economic-risks-from-ai-data-centers/ ). And probably also excluding the deaths from suicide by the poorly compensated labors who have to weed out the CSAM and other internet filth from training data (https://restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor/ ).
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-05-30 06:34
@keydelk@fosstodon.org @joachim@boitam.eu @ProcessParsnip@mastodon.ie Compared to other imminent & existential risks we're facing datacenters are kinda chump change, wouldn't ya say? We've got a tyrant insistent on staying in the white house by any means, with all the inevitable holocaust ver. 2 that'll follow comes bundled with it. WW III ready to kick off anytime from five minutes to two years from now. A bleeding kansas style civil war fermenting in the, heh, wings. As things go the datacentersis are piffling small change