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AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring: Even a whiff of AI money seems to disgust voters. (futurism.com)
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[–] TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren't paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.

They're using AI. They think it's wonderful, they've barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think "data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don'T yoU?"

The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):

  • Therapy and companionship
  • Organizing my life
  • Finding purpose
  • Enhanced learning
  • Summarizing content
  • Generating ideas
  • Generating code (for professionals)
  • Improving code (for professionals)
  • Creativity
  • Visual art and design
[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

My thoughts exactly. I know two folks who are going all in with AI and haven't even considered any controversy. Feels like they live on another planet. Hell, one of the guys was even showing off his pervert glasses and when I called them pervert glasses he laughed and said he hadn't heard that before.

I really hope those folks are in the minority.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I sleep at night by telling myself they're the minority

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, you also cannot discern the difference in traditional DCs and AI DCs? I feel like you know and I'm missing something.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Scale. Older data centers fit in the "light industrial" zoned parts of town and required some minor grid upgrades to the local electrical distribution.

Planned data centers require as much power as an entire rural state and are the size of a small town and get buit too fast to wait for any new power generation to be added to the grid.