As many investigative articles document, the rush for data centers is for broad integration of artificial intelligence with enormous potentially negative consequences. Even the multinational tech oligarchs behind data centers admit AI has enormous destructive and disruptive capabilities.
ֱ supervisors touting temporary construction and meager permanent jobs in approving the data center are disingenuous or willfully ignorant. Massive job losses are predicted as core government, non-profit and infrastructure functions are absorbed by AI’s anonymous, unaccountable algorithms.
When taxpayers were required to bailout reckless financial institutions deemed “too big to fail” during the 2008 crash, data centers controlling vital city and operational functions will also be “too big to fail” and area residents' needs will be sacrificed during inevitable water and power shortages.
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