Post #3364751
2026-06-14 01:47 UTC
I wouldn’t go that far. All the websites, apps, and electronic services we use every day are hosted in some datacenter somewhere. I’d say we get value out of that.
They didn’t become a political football until the AI companies drastically increased how much power and cooling each rack used. I don’t think we’re getting enough extra value out of stuffing AI in everything to justify the added environmental cost over more standard, non-AI web services.
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@TheFogan@programming.dev 2026-06-14 03:48
It’s a general view, we aren’t thinking we need to burn down all the data centers… the fact is they are looking to scale up 5x the current stock in a couple of years. This isn’t like saying “we should never cut down a tree” this is like, “we shouldn’t clean cut the whole rainforest”. Everything is about quantity.