Instead, all that money is being used to accelerate our doom. AI datacenters unnecessarily consuming power and drinking water in small towns everywhere. Many just dumping humidity into the air and letting that water literally blow away via lazy evaporative cooling. Most “normal” water consuming processes consume, treat, and return water to the downstream-traveling aquifer.

Now, couple that with an overall warming climate. When air is warmer, the more moisture the air can hold. So we end up with more water vapor in the air than normal. With the weirding factor of climate change, this means more water energy for more powerful and destructive storms the likes of which humanity has never seen. Which feeds back into more ice melting, oceans rising, permafrost melting, cycle, accelerate, cycle, accelerate.

Also, real curious to see how millions of warehouses belching humidity and heat into the air across the surface of the globe can affect the general weather patterns, but that sadly won’t be known until after the damage is done.

And every fake-friendly long-winded response consumes more electricity and water than it should, while also being useless.

Native plants is such a misnomer. It really just means “plants that aren’t grass” - as often the “native” plant will end up being some tall grass from another continent or region. Something people should be careful with when going into this if they truly want to pick plants that are “native” to the region.

This is also why the AI datacenter race is so asinine. All the datacenters drinking all the water and power will end up being even more pointless wastes of resources in short order.

Obviously the tech bros are just doing the datacenter land-grab as a pissing match because they’re bored billionaires that need to get a life, and love creating nonsense contests. It is just terrible that so many naive communities will be bilked out of resources (or made sick and die from the pollution) as a result.

They stopped coincidentally around the same time Google announced that no third party messaging apps would be allowed to use RCS.

Translation: These features were using too much compute in their “AI” datacenters and they’re cutting costs.

Bubble so close to popping!

IDEs just get worse, bellwether signal for where software companies think software in general is going, if the dev tools are already going to crap.

It will be once the bubble pops. Small local tuned models for specific tasks that the user powers are much less expensive for the tech companies than tech companies powering and watering datacenters.

Right now the tech bros genuinely think people will be cool paying hundreds of dollars a month to rent a GPU for all their Internet tasks. AI fatigue is already setting in.

The tech bros’ investors will pull funding once they realize how asinine that is long-term. Probably already starting to, with the likes of Zuck trying to use green charity money to fund his LLMs.