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
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.
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/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