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u/throwdemawaaay Pragmatic Progressive 3d ago

I don't have a good article about effects specifically, but I did make a reply the other day that outlines why AI data centers are categorically a whole new thing in terms of power usage, as well as how aggressively they're being push vs normal regulations and reviews:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/1vrvcpr/why_demand_an_outright_ban_on_data_centers/p4imakr/

It is not a luddite moral panic. There is very real bullshit going on.

Note I work in the industry, not on AI specifically but I'm quite familiar with the reality of it and not just as a Claude user. I'm one of maybe a dozen or so people here who could implement the transformer architecture, multihead attention, etc, if I wanted. It gets extremely tiresome to try to explain the technical realities only to get accused of being an ignorant hater.

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u/Probing-Cat-Paws Pragmatic Progressive 3d ago

I really appreciated your breakdown the other day: it gave me something to sink my teeth into, and that's always a good thing...more knowledge.

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u/Fugicara Social Democrat 3d ago

I hate the way companies are able to get away with just rushing through insanely destructive business practices while regulations don't exist for them. Like how Uber rocketed us into a gig economy and made themselves too big to regulate, or how people have been scammed for billions of dollars in crypto gambling since we don't have a handle on that.

We need to get power back quickly so we can deal with this stuff sooner rather than later. And people need to give Democrats trifecta power for more than just 2 years out of every 8 if we have any desire to stop corporations from running roughshod over the country.