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hailey
@hailey.at

i am begging...BEGGING...people to stop reading a headline and thinking "yep, that's the end. that's it. end of the world". and the people with tens or hundreds of thousands of followers reposting this stuff as if it were fact have got to stop.

New Scientist@newscientist.com

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

newscientist.comAI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°CHundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
hailey
@hailey.at

even the slightest bit of thought from anyone reading this headline should be enough to go "wait...this doesn't make sense", but alas

sof
@mofu.run

I think you're severely overestimating how much the average user knows about what a datacenter exactly is, how it works, and what it can or can't do

hailey
@hailey.at

"destroy datacenters" while putting a post on a webiste that is ran out of a datacenter

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