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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:10:06 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Microsoft first violated your privacy and safety with its questionable privacy practices. Now, a Microsoft AI data center is draining water resources from a small Mexican town. After decades of battling water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete with Big Tech for water. They are destroying our environment so that Openai and Microsoft can have more money https://www.context.news/ai/thirsty-data-centres-spring-up-in-water-poor-mexican-town

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:28:35 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     A law should tax these AI data centers heavily, making it impossible for them to build anywhere when you find out it is creating environmental damage and issues for local communities. I guarantee these AI companies spend lots of money lobbying to buy power to abuse copyright laws and damage the environment. Ultimately, job losses are also caused by these corporations. I hate everything about this timeline.

   • Loran (loran_hayden@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 09:53:28 JST Loran

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     @nixCraft The problem is: They don't destroy water. The simply heat up which is not a chemical change and, therefore, not recognized as pollution in the minds of thermodynamic idiots.
     I recall taking third year thermodynamics from Jurgen Kreuzer at Dalhousie University and he made a point of telling us back in 1990ish that our main problem is heat pollution - stopping GHGs will slow it but physics says you can only get rid of it at a well-known rate. We cannot keep pumping 1/2

   • Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷 (algocompsynth@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 15:05:18 JST Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷

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     @nixCraft I am probably switching my main computer from Windows 11 to Universal Blue DX at the end of the year.