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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All users pay for the infrastructure required to generate and deliver electricity. When you have huge data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, all users of that electricity company share in the cost to build that capacity. We are not directly paying their electricity bill but we are indirectly paying for the infrastructure which increases all of our bills[/quote]

Yes they are not paying their fair share. They aren't paying proportionate to their usage. They're being subsidized by the public without a corresponding public benefit[/quote]

Cloud computing and storage, network reliability/resilience, and so on are not public benefits?  How silly of those of us who think otherwise.

Data centers enable capabilities [b]we all want[/b], albeit usually not in our own back yards.  We want AI, we want robust IT infrastructures supporting our personal and business needs, and we want it all at the expense of the providers?  [/quote]

No, we do not ALL want those capabilities.

Considering how many times major companies and even the government get hacked, I try my hardest to keep my data off the cloud.

While I acknowledge that AI has immense potential to benefit humanity, I think it also has immense potential to harm humanity, which is magnified by being ignored.  At best, we’re looking at major economic disruption on our way to a Utopia based on the enslavement of sentient beings.  Alternatively, we could be engineering the destruction of the human race by designing AIs who are smarter than us, giving them physical robot bodies that are superior to ours, and turning over the functioning and control of our world to their efficiency.  I’d like to halt AI development until we can analyze the problems and implement safeguards against the dangers and strategies to ease the transition.

While I do actually want IT infrastructures, they are a lesser priority than my desire for water and energy, both of which are resources that AI’s requirements strain.

So, no, I don’t want large data centers, but if they’re nonetheless being foisted upon me I certainly resent providers charging me for the “privilege”.[/quote]

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