The anger against data centers is inspiring panic among AI engineers and corporate executives. The ferocity of the backlash has stunned the tech industry
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Software engineer here. Fuck your datacenters and most things called "AI". If you want to run some local models on ethically-sourced training data, I've got no problem with that. Else, no.
Goes to show how psychopathicly immoral they are
"Thank God for Mark", said a political operative??
Zuckerberg has been a punchline at best and a villain at worst for decades now.
If you want people to hate and distrust something, make Mark Zuckerberg the public face of that thing.
And, he deleted the post after a week or so, because of the backlash and ridicule.
Thank God for Mark Zuckerberg!
"Stunned the tech industry"... I'm in the tech industry and we all hate how LLMs are being used.
I wish the hate was more widespread, I also work in the tech industry and there are plenty of people who i have to work with who have given themselves up completely to having Claude do everything for them. I have never been so frustrated not only trying to keep up but also fixing problems overlooked by LLMs and then absorbing LLM generated responses to pr reviews or to why something broke in production
My favourite new term for those people is 'meat proxy'.
Gosh, who would've thought people would hate having their water sources depleted and their electric bill go thru the roof! Who wouldn't want a worthless data center into their neighborhood?
And have new computers be made unaffordable.
And 25% unemployment
Democracy and billionaires are not compatible systems
They'll keep building them, but they'll try to keep the stories from appearing. Reports of discontent will be stifled.
It's the other way around - they're talking about building a lot more data centers than they're actually building, to convince investors that AI is actually going to make 10x the revenue in three years.
Where is that revenue going to come from? Which companies are looking to quadruple their IT budget? Where are all the consumers with a ton of disposable income? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Great, zuck with the "sell out your children's community for cash right now" fund.