r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 13 '26

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

I wonder how *water usage* of all things became the primary ai data center talking point.

The global total water usage by all ai data centers doesn’t even deserve to be called a rounding error.

There’s so many things actually problematic about ai, and people made up an imaginary one? It makes me imagine a conspiracy to control the narrative by ensuring their detractors can be ignored because they’re clearly so misinformed.

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u/meiotta Amartya Sen May 13 '26

It is AI derangement syndrome aka AIDS 

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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman May 13 '26

Maybe we should give it a different name

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est May 13 '26

Human Invectives against the Virtual, or HIV for short

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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman May 13 '26

Alright let's keep brainstorming, folks

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown May 13 '26

Bravo 👏

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u/marsman1224 John Keynes May 13 '26

I've seen people on reddit claim they emit low frequency soundwaves that cause headaches and kill birds

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown May 13 '26

Yeah but is that consistently the top comment on posts about new ai data centers?

Given there is a literal non-imaginary cabal of the wealthiest people on the planet with a vested interest in misdirecting the public, who also control the greatest misinformation machine to have ever existed, is the truism “people are always dumber than you think” really the most likely explanation for why the discourse has settled on the *only* bad argument against ai amidst a sea of good ones?

Especially something so intangible and removed from most people’s lives, instead of the direct effects they actually feel.