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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I've also read reports that the noise levels and pollution coming out of these things is staggering. Not to mention they appear to be built as quickly as possible with little regard for laws and regulations.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's mainly Grok, since Elon did never even bother getting approval for the shitton of Gas Turbines he placed which wreak havoc on the air quality in Memphis. I think xAI is the only Datacenter running on 100% fossil fuels, without permission from any municipality..

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Interesting! I was under the impression all data centers were causing similar problems, but leave it to the X Man to go the extra mile to really fuck things up. That piece of shit has unlimited money and still pulls shit like this.

Just to add to what you said, it appears Musk is in violation of EPA standards and they may be doing something about it: https://www.techspot.com/news/110971-epa-shuts-down-xai-off-grid-turbine-loophole.html

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Fucks the water up too.

People that live too close turn their taps open and can get barely a trickle, sometimes literally nothing.

Because the data centers are sucking up potable water for cooling because it's cheaper to run it wild open no matter what than paying for a sustainable cooling system up front.