Some times I do wonder if we're not all trapped in a Captain Planet episode and the pollution centres are here because Heart is still on his evil arc.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2026
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Stop calling it AI. It’s not an intelligence.
AI as a term is constantly changing when it comes to what we actually consider to be meeting its criteria. When chess playing bots were starting to get really good in the 90s for example, people commonly considered that the pinnacle of AI until they got used to it and started to dissociate from that. Rinse and repeat with LLMs today.
Besides, AI is a field, not necessarily a technology, and the capabilities a computer requires for it to be considered “intelligent” aren’t even remotely similar to that of a human being. You can consider a computer intelligent without it being necessarily illogical.
It's intelligence as in mass surveillance.
I prefer that they keep the association with AI. It has been very effective bad press for AI to the average offline person
Maybe "wealth concentrators".
These fires would still be happening if we never built a single AI focused data center. They haven't been around long enough to make a dent compared to all the other sources of emissions
It's such a fucking shame, because it is possible to have reasonable data centers. The modern internet and plenty of business tech is built on it. Just basic disaster recovery practice of not having your data immediately on site, you have it on hardware at a data center, potentially mirrored between two physical locations.
But like everything in tech-bro land, the hyper scaling pursuit of infinite growth just fucking ruins it.
Machine learning has been used by the scientific community for fucking decades, but now you get it to vomit halfway convincing text output and everyone starts acting like the infinite money machine has been found.
Fucking unrestrained capitalism ruining everything.
Ruining everything centers
85% of wildfires are caused by direct human ignition.
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/fire-prevention-education-mitigation