Here are helpful resources for better understanding better a more nuanced view of how data centers impact communities.
Water and Resource Impact
- Impacts of Data Centers on Rural Communities: This article details the impact of data centers on rural communities, including the highly questionable legal behavior of data centers purposely obscuring information about development from community members, and resource impact on local communities.
- Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - An article by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy explaining just the sheer numbers of local impact of water usage - including how some data centers use more power than a city of 50,000 people.
- Data Centers and Water Systems - Additional information from the Water Finance Exchange sounding the alarm on data center water usage.
Criticism of the AI Industry
- Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way - Futurism discusses how integration of AI into work processes leads to a decrease in the value of its output - something companies embracing AI soon learned to regret.
- ‘Students can’t reason’: Teachers warn AI is fueling a crisis in kids’ ability to think - Fortune discusses how AI impacts children’s ability to think for themselves.
- Residents say a lawsuit and settlement overrode Saline Township’s initial vote on the OpenAI Oracle data center - AI companies are exploiting limitations in the legal system and their ridiculous capital to overpower local votes on land usage. Remember: When you let them in - it’s not yours anymore.
- There is No AI Singularity - A detailed analysis of the history of intelligence and pointing out a critical flaw in AI technology that demonstrates why the narrative of AI’s superhuman technological power does not hold water.