Hacker News Reader

Comment by samudrijan | Hacker News Reader

I like clean water to drink and air to breathe and a climate that isn’t on an increasingly hotter trajectory. Government should police corporations.

View on HN

That's entirely fair and reasonable if you level your complaints about power and water use at everything that uses a lot rather than just data centres.

If you're only saying we need fewer data centres then your argument is against AI, and not in favor of sensible approach to the climate.

Oh boy, do have news for you: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

Point being that we've been literally eating our environment to death, long before AI was a twinkle in Scam Altmans eye.

Weird how people never cared then. Weird how vegans were constantly shunned as too extreme then.

We could also just stop giving bad corporations money. I can assure you it's the thing that they absolutely hate the most and 10x as effective as trying to write legislation.

this works less and less as corporations buy from each other and everybody has things like pensions/401k and investments. there are also many who will buy shit regardless. it's just ignoring the reality of the situation, really.

Companies aren't earning the majority of profit from your average joe buying products anymore. The consumers are investors: Rich assholes with too much money, gamblers, and true believers. It's a lot like how McDonalds true income comes not from consumers but from holding and renting out valuable plots of land.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com