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CaptainExplosion on 18 June 2026
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SvennoJ said:
shavenferret said:

Mr Explosion and fellow lover of nature, are you using a home based internet that would presumably be running through a data center?

Or do you have some sort of home based server that is doing the dirty work instead of some big bad data center? 

The internet worked perfectly fine before the explosion of AI data centers. 
The internet worked perfectly fine before streaming everything.
The internet worked perfectly fine before smart phones.

Modern smart phones are causing brain rot. You shouldn't be on Tik Tok any moment of the day. Doom scrolling is not what we need. 
Streaming is just a less efficient way of content delivery (but more efficient way of distribution) Home based PVRs worked perfectly fine with the old coax cable, sat tv and ota delivery. 
AI will sooner control information flow rather than guarantee freedom of information.

So we could just go back to the data centers we had around 2010, just more efficient versions 16 years later, and people would become a lot healthier!

Not to mention have quieter communities, lower electric bills and more drinking water.

Why isn't anyone working on ways to make AI data centers smaller, quieter and less reliant on liquid cooling or more energy efficient?

And if we move data centers to space, there may not be an atmosphere to release the heat into, but couldn't they have built in coolant circulation up there? The plan may need rockets to work, but at least they wouldn't take up space on Earth.

Last edited by CaptainExplosion - on 18 June 2026