@59thProfile@MongolianBeast1@woke8yearold This doesnโt track price hikes in communities with data centers, it tracks statewide averages which is not what people are generally arguing about.
@koosdelareycape@Unlearned_Hand@Reza272238 This one seems good on the overall potential harm of data center water usage:
Understanding How Data Centers Impact Surface and Ground Waters | CAES Field Report https://t.co/vl11idek5A
@koosdelareycape@Unlearned_Hand@Reza272238 Example of sediment in tapwater:
https://t.co/Jqmnbb2qbq.
The report that you linked me mentioned noise pollution and didnโt take a strong stance on the overall impact, raising concerns about tax incentives.
@koosdelareycape@Unlearned_Hand@Reza272238 Pretty much. Data centers usually shop around for the states with the best tax incentives and they almost only produce temporary jobs. Even if they paid everything like a normal business that wouldnโt cover the economic costs shifted to the denizens of the nearby neighborhood.
@Unlearned_Hand@kristo00@CharmCityAudit@TacticalMuni Your benefit from AI is based on the subsidized rates that VC is giving everyone as opposed to the inherent value of LLM tokens, if tokens were priced at a profitable rate for companies a lot less people would use them. LLMโs are currently economically and fiscally unprofitable.
@Olfool2@TacticalMuni@kristo00@Unlearned_Hand Those data centers are only built because of quickly diminishing venture capital funds, not because of profit. AI isnโt a profitable business and either way people should be compensated for paying the economic costs of building a data center.
@3RenChengHu@Unlearned_Hand The inhabitants pay higher electricity prices because a private corporation uses the electrical grid that was made for people, not data centers, effectively meaning the town and private persons are subsidizing a corporation, not to mention the costs of water and noise pollution.
@3RenChengHu@Unlearned_Hand What can possibly be the excuse for making regular folks foot the bill of an unprofitable corporation that doesnโt generate jobs in the area?
@Unlearned_Hand The government/corporation should handsomely compensate every person affected by data center construction before a single data center is built. You canโt just socialize the costs of a negative ROI investment, thatโs just mental.