We are all aware of the big Artificial Intelligence push, with AI assistants in all your software, image generation and deepfake videos everywhere. College students are warned that their majors may lead to unemployment as AI takes so many jobs.
This software company has the next step in the AI takeover of the economy.
A new technology that has so far proven to still not be able to accurately render a Human Body is decimating entire industries. Color me very skeptical.
AI data centers are gobbling up land and power resources everywhere. Personally, I expect this movement to go down in flames before too long, and when it does it will be spectacular. Literal flames, when those banks of lithium ion batteries catch fire and burn down a data center, pouring toxic fumes into the air for days (electrical fires are notoriously hard to extinguish).
Here’s hoping Artisan fails.
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I’m not quite sure about the concerns of “gobbling up land”. We have lots of land. Less than 10% of all land in the United States is actually developed. A few data centers isn’t going to change that much. Power, otoh, is definitely a concern, especially when those centers are getting preferential rates and delivery agreements over the populace.
Polluting the water in places that use wells too, I have heard.
The problem is that the stories are the same claim about literally everything from the same folks– and they still don’t bother to do things like give checkable evidence.
Amusingly, they are kind of a lot like nuclear power plants. :laughing:
For polluting water– it would have to return to the system. Which would mean the centers would have to pull in more cooling water, treat it enough to not gum up the system (I can’t remember, did you get into water cooled gaming systems, or were you sane enough to run the other way?) and then release that again for some reason.
I actually know a gal up in Idaho where they’re going over a data center being put in, and the only objection is that the start-up water might be hard to get…. she’s pretty sure that they are going to make the local Greens’ heads explode because they object to returning post-waste-treatment-center water to the river.
Oh, and the ads?
I’d lay money that they are from one of the multiple, very well founded, anti-AI groups.
Who don’t actually oppose AI, they’re upset that it’s possible to brew your own at home, so to speak– they want regulations that effectively make it so only big companies are able to do it.
Rather like the Disney funded push to strictly regulate AI art that fizzled out. (Disney has been using a primitive form of AI to draw the between panels for decades, now- thankfully, that attempt didn’t go far.)
I am anti-AI. I don’t use it in any way, except maybe an “assistant” on a web site. I see a bust like the dot-com bust in 1999. The situation is very similar, with hundreds of tech companies barreling ahead with huge layoffs of seasoned personnel in favor of AI everything. I am happy to be retired right now. Hugs to you and the family!!
It’s a tool. When it works right, you don’t even know it’s there.
Right now another buddy is … well, let’s just say that the H1B thing would’ve had to go back 15 years to prevent the cheating that got most of the group their perma-creds to work here, and that is what is hurting companies right now. Especially because the Indian cultural setup is the sort where even a bad AI can do a decent job of mimicking the guy who bought the correct paperwork to be hired.