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Blaming capitalism is a cop out at this point. You can't just ignore some very specific problems about a very specific technology then gesture wildly at the world and be like, "if only we didn't have the entire system set up the way we do, if only we had a perfect economy".
Good and bad things can still happen in capitalism. You can't just throw up your hands and say "capitalism" when rat poison ends up in baby food. Regulation can still exist in capitalism and has a proven track record to work. You don't have to replace the entirety of your economic system to prevent AI data centers from being built.
AI is a huge umbrella term, not a very specific technology at all.
obviously not, and i support people who stop them. but even there, ai isn't exceptional. streaming services like youtube or netflix, or massive online games, also consume a ton of electricity and have polluting datacenters, datacenters used for ai aren't fundamentally different from datacenters used for something else, and yet people only build movements against them when it's ai. don't get me wrong it's good that we're educating people on the harms caused by datacenters. and it's good that many of these projects are being canceled. but datacenters are a problem exacerbated by ai, not created by it.
and you're right that a communist economy would not inherently fix this. maybe there would be less datacenters overall because people (and their governments) would prioritize the health of communities over chatbots, netflix and fortnite. but datacenters are not inherent to any economic model.
for everything else tho?