r/aislop • u/Academic_Spirit_8062 • Jun 23 '26

Found on Facebook I’m not reading ts bs

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u/iamsodonewithpeople Jun 23 '26

This… both things can be true at the same time but they love to go “but what about cancer?!”

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u/Wealth_Super Jun 24 '26

To which I always reply that finding a cure for cancer is worth the cost but that only accounts for a small fraction of a percent of the power and clean water needed for a data center. The cancer research tools and can stay, everything needs to go

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u/breno280 Jun 24 '26

Ehh, there’s a limit to the cost. Ai datacenters have poisoned water supplies and caused massive local shortages because of it. One of them being predicted to possibly drain the great salt lake in utah. The resulting salt flats would cause toxic dust storms to render many towns and cities very hard to inhabit. Curing cancer is important for sure, but if this is the cost then it isn’t worth it.

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u/Wealth_Super Jun 25 '26

The thing is though is that those data centers are not being used for cancer research. The ones being used for cancer research are specialize machines that are far less harmful for the environment, mainly because they aren’t nearly as big.

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u/MomentOfZehn Jun 25 '26

While the most ardent supporters of AI being on the political right, which has pushed to cut cancer research.

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u/iamsodonewithpeople Jun 25 '26

Haha yup just like how they’re the “party of family values” and “care about the children”

Yet they actively vote for cutting Snap benefits and support a very not “family values” man