General Discussion

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I think we need an immediate moratorium on new data centers, and a total re-evaluation of how these centers affect us and our environment.
Ten years ago there were only 1/2 the number we have now. AI is the reason the new, mega-size data centers are being built. These resource hogs aren't needed to support traditional data processing.
The intention is to transform how computers interact with people and shape our economic, social, political, and military structures.
The race to build thousands of these centers is such a short time is truly disturbing.
The potential for harm is nearly limitless, unless we act quickly to impose limits.
Unfortunately, republicans think with their wallets and see mega profits coming from AI. They're willfully blind to any dangers AI represent.
And the dangers are real. By the next Presidential election, there could be a couple thousand more of these centers, and the trend toward their being used to control the population will have accelerated to the point of us losing control of our country by virtue of electronic subjugation.