Oh, no need to apologize, I fully agree with your overall view on AI data centers, and your observations of how politicians don’t even nominally stand against climate change anymore. It’s just become very blatant very rapidly, and it’s easiest to see with data centers.

The way people prioritize different causes for climate change and environmental issues does frustrate me at times, so I appreciate the reply :)

If anything, it’s climate change and failing systems due to late-stage capitalism, followed by some form of fascism or other authoritarian system, aided by AI to stay in power.

Electricity use from AI data centers on a global scale isn’t impactful enough to make that much of a difference, it’s more of a local issue, at least at the current rate. Water use is entirely negligible outside of the surrounding area, animal agriculture uses more than a thousand times as much as all data centers combined.