Congress used a discharge petition to force transparency on the Epstein files. Now it should force a vote before data-center deals lock communities into new costs for land, water, power, and money
Our politicians have a big decision to make. Do they support/trust the people who vote to put them in office or an Administration (TRUMP) who will backstab them if he gets offended.
In my younger adult years, the late 1960s, my favorite serial adventure TV show was *The Prisoner*, imported from Britain, featuring a retired spy (played with stylish irony by Patrick McGoohan). He was abducted by agents from a totalitarian government (standing for the worst socialist Britain people feared). All the residents (kidnapped too) were given numbers. The hero ("# 6") often asked grimly, "Who is # 1?" Escape was always thwarted in a strangely impersonal way. And potential allies were hard to trust. The often challenging need of the state was "information." Today, I ask of the owners and investors of data centers, "Who is # 1, 2 and so on?" And "what information do you want, and why?" I ask the public and our legislators, how many data centers does the public good need? Why does Ohio, my state, already have 202 data centers? Somewhere figures can be found on the average volume of water per day (per year) data centers consume. If they are powered with fossil fuels, what are the average outputs of carbon dioxide and methane which daily pollute the air? What is done with the waste water? To what level of decibels does the typical data center emit, hourly, daily? Your questions, General A, have high importance as well.
Great vitally important points.
The billion dollar corporations who want the data centers must work with the communities to:
absolutely find ways to pay all extra costs for energy and to keep energy available as before if not better for the people,
to find ways to keep water supply clean and unaffected for local people,
to keep air quality at it's best for the people!
Also to build in a way that does not affect important farmland. This is all just for starters. If they can't do that, then it's a no go.
This AI stuff must be regulated
These are dangerous storage areas that will be hacked for all kinds of nefarious uses of our personal information.
No Artificial Intelligence that increases our energy costs and poisons our water!
What do you want to bet?
They will build these Artificial Intelligence Centers and in 10 years they will all be shut down!
This will be another failed experiment by idiotic industrialists who thought they were smarter than everyone else...
Want to bet me?
What transparency? Everything that was of importance was redacted.
The environment is even more important than The Epstein files. This can’t wait we must act ASAP.
Our politicians have a big decision to make. Do they support/trust the people who vote to put them in office or an Administration (TRUMP) who will backstab them if he gets offended.
Bill Murphy
In my younger adult years, the late 1960s, my favorite serial adventure TV show was *The Prisoner*, imported from Britain, featuring a retired spy (played with stylish irony by Patrick McGoohan). He was abducted by agents from a totalitarian government (standing for the worst socialist Britain people feared). All the residents (kidnapped too) were given numbers. The hero ("# 6") often asked grimly, "Who is # 1?" Escape was always thwarted in a strangely impersonal way. And potential allies were hard to trust. The often challenging need of the state was "information." Today, I ask of the owners and investors of data centers, "Who is # 1, 2 and so on?" And "what information do you want, and why?" I ask the public and our legislators, how many data centers does the public good need? Why does Ohio, my state, already have 202 data centers? Somewhere figures can be found on the average volume of water per day (per year) data centers consume. If they are powered with fossil fuels, what are the average outputs of carbon dioxide and methane which daily pollute the air? What is done with the waste water? To what level of decibels does the typical data center emit, hourly, daily? Your questions, General A, have high importance as well.