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Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution

Each gas-burning generator at Meta’s El Paso data center will produce about as much pollution as 13 cars, according to the company installing them. When the project is done, there will be 813 generators, all permitted to run around the clock.

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"only 13 cars? That's not mu- 813 generators!?"

Don't let the reader do the math. Show it. It's literally 10569 cars.

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AI is such a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with capitalism I'm starting to think it was created by a god as humanity's last chance to get it.

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