This Saturday (June 27th) at 1pm come join our protest march from the Vancouver Art Gallery to City Hall, and let our government know what we think about short-sighted tech developments.
This earth is worth infinitely more than a few dollars in the pockets of corporations
#vanpoli #vancouver #cdnpoli #bcpoli #NoAI #DataCentres #BigTech
Yes
Ai Data Centers aka “slopping malls”
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I'm involved in campaigns against data center development here in Oregon, which is third in the nati...Roger Peet (Justseeds)
So, it now seems that McKinsey & Cambridge Econometrics analysis of the likely environmental impact of the build-out of AI-related data centres in the UK was off by around ten times; that is, new (independent) projections suggest (and now adopted by the Govt.) that the environmental impact (via carbon emissions) is likely to be TEN times what the consultancies predicted.
(water usage predictions have also been raised)
Funny that...I wonder who else McKinsey work for???
#AI #DataCentres
h/t FT
