Comment by simulator5g

1 month ago

15 that we know of, so far. People outside the HN crowd just started using AI pretty recently. There’s also a case to be made that the increased pollution has a certain death toll as well. We know that fossil fuels, construction, manufacturing, and even noise all produce pollution that reduce the average lifespan in a given area. Some of these data centers are being run off gas turbines which are very dirty.