Force them to use wind/solar. “AI” now are filthy rich so they will manage to use green energy and still be filthy profitable.
Still needs to follow environmental protections and go easy on the locals. Having wind turbines everywhere just for data centers isn’t so great either.
Sure it is. Once the bubble bursts in a few years and most of the data centres are converted to indoor pickleball courts, there’ll be plenty of free power generation for all.
isn’t so great either
With such an attitude you will just hate anything. You can’t have en “extremely ideal all-around nice variant without even the tiniest flaw”. Real world doesn’t work that way :)
We don’t need that many data centers, so we also don’t need to expand energy production at this scale.
Even renewables have an impact and for some reason countries love to build their solar parks in nature reserves rather than a desert. Go figure.
You gotta weigh the pros and cons for every decision. This has nothing to do with perfectionism when the cons are clearly outnumbering the pros.
Another reason to say FUCK AI (aka Trump’s “super intelligence” since it way outsmarts him)
So don’t build them. Problem solved.
