Just remember, every time you use Google AI, you're helping encourage these data centers to continue operating. I switched over to Ecosia as a search engine and browser, and have disabled the AI. Every little bit counts.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Time to ban data centers.
Datacenters are how the internet works
Time to stop calling hyperscale GPU farms “data centres” then. There’s a difference between housing a few exabytes of spinning disks with enough compute to run S3 APIs and PHP servers and enough GPU power to continuously statistically correlate all the world’s data to better generate slop from.
Jeavon's paradox
^^^ This exactly. "We're going to reduce our carbon footprint by deploying Gigawatts more gas and coal, and aren't these solar panels Shiny!"
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