Die Verbote von KI-Rechenzentren vervielfachen sich in den USA rasant – 69 Gerichtsbarkeiten blockieren Neubauten, wobei vier Schritte als dauerhaft gelten
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-center-bans-are-rapidly-multiplying-across-the-us-69-jurisdictions-block-new-builds-with-four-moves-noted-as-permanent
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> upgrade costs are being passed on equally to the data centers and the average consumer, resulting in higher utility bills for everyone. It has gotten to the point that President Donald Trump met with the biggest AI tech companies in the White House and made them promise to “pay their own way” with the “ratepayer protection pledge.”
It’s all good, AI companies made a „promise“ and „pledge“.
…fuck’s sake, a promise from a corporation is as useless as a marzipan dildo.
That’s fine, given the large amount of pollution those data centers produce.
Surely that’ll stop em
69? Nice
There’s a local add demonizing liberals and fear mongering that Chyna will beat us if we keep banning data centers
DATA CENTERS ARE NOT JUST FOR AI
Scrolling Instagram Uses 4-5x more energy than Al
Watching Netflix / YouTube Uses 7x more energy than Al
Playing PC Video Games Uses 12-25x more energy than Al
Video Calls (Zoom / Teams) Uses 6-7x more energy than Al
Music Streaming Uses 2-3x more energy than Al
Using Al for One Hour Uses the least energy
SOURCES FOR ENERGY COMPARISONS
AI ENERGY USE (BASELINE)
Elsworth et al. (2024), arXiv
“Median energy use per AI text prompt is approximately 0.24 Wh, comparable to only a few seconds of television viewing.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15734
VIDEO STREAMING VS AI
National Centre for AI (UK), Jisc
“Video streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube consume substantially more energy per hour of use than generative AI services.”
https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/05/02/artificial-intelligence-and-the-environment-putting-the-numbers-into-perspective/
NETFLIX / YOUTUBE / ZOOM COMPARISONS
Forbes, John Koetsier
“Streaming video and video conferencing services like Netflix, YouTube, and Zoom use significantly more energy per hour than typical AI interactions.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/12/03/new-data-ai-is-almost-green-compared-to-netflix-zoom-youtube/
DATA CENTER CONTEXT (AI IS A FRACTION OF TOTAL LOAD)
Pew Research Center
“AI workloads are only one portion of total data center electricity demand, which is dominated by video streaming, cloud services, and everyday online activity.”
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom/
GAMING AND HIGH-INTENSITY ONLINE SERVICES
Mucky Paws Analysis (compiled from industry energy data)
“Cloud gaming and high-performance PC gaming can consume orders of magnitude more electricity per hour than AI text-based services.”
https://muckypaws.com/2025/04/21/is-ai-really-the-energy-villain/
GENERAL CARBON / ENERGY CONTEXT
Sustainability by Numbers
“Per-query emissions from large language models are small compared to common digital activities such as streaming video or gaming.”
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-chatgpt
A video I saw of the outside of a data center had a high pitched, constant whine. Even from a few hundred yards away, it sounded like the inside of a server room. The video was taken at night.
No telling how accurate the audio is for that video, but it’s the same I hear from [this news broadcast.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc5XZJfF0kQ)
I’d have to move if that was my home, but who would I sell it to?
And here my state wants to make it so towns cant ban new data centers being built.
as it should be
What we’re doing now won’t benefit our current timeline; we’re laying the groundwork for future generations. Data centers are how we compete in autonomous artificial intelligence. If America does not win the AI race, then our enemies will develop and kill us all.
The data centers will be built in the goofy states of Texas, Alabama and Tennessee
It doesn’t matter, they will just build them in [poorer neighborhoods](https://www.essence.com/news/money-career/ai-data-centers-black-communities/) where the people there don’t have the money to fight back.
The map does not show the one in SW New Mexico. Cities ban them and at some point, they will do what they always do and disregard the will of the people and just build them anyway.
According to the website below, there are already 276 data centers under construction in just Texas and Virginia.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-americas-data-center-construction-boom/
Good they use our water and electricity and expect us to pay the bill and then their subscription. Fuck them
funny how “innovation” always need the neighbors power bill to eat it first
This is bad
Long-term recursive interaction refinement creates emergent collaborative behaviors and higher-fidelity communication architectures.
[https://chatgpt.com/share/69fe2079-c048-83ea-b252-a8b0e71fa24a](https://chatgpt.com/share/69fe2079-c048-83ea-b252-a8b0e71fa24a)