The loudest data centers are actually AI miners. This background noise could be bad for people’s health, but more research needs to be done.
In areas with spare electric capacity, data centers use this spare capacity and help pay for the grid. But not everywhere has spare capacity, and data centers can use up this capacity quick.
Companies come into small towns, and take up a bunch of land to build data centers. They often make the local officials sign to keep the true owners secret, so the residents don’t know who is changing the landscape of their town or village.
Companies often bribe localities.
Musk started running a bunch of gas plants to power data centers and slid under regulation by making the plants mobile. Portable plants are also less efficient and worse for the environment than permanent ones.
Musk did a great job with his businesses, but he also lied and mislead while manipulating: sucker consumers; the stock market; and the government. He got a lot of money from the government for different businesses.
Musk bought Twitter almost as a joke, and now uses it as his personal propaganda platform where his Tweets are boosted and he deplatforms people he doesn’t like.
Musk’s ability to pump the government for money went turbo charge with Trump.
Musk sometimes takes criticisms or minor slights as major slights and like a child gets butthurt and can’t rise above it.
The negative local impacts of these huge data centers. Water, electricity, environment destruction, crowding out other investment and construction, air pollution…
Reporting with multiple sources says Musk went to the Whitehouse with a plan to limit the connectivity of Ukrainian drones to satellites. The connections worked on the drones full speed when the drones flew into the EU, but didn’t work in Ukraine, making it seem that the connectivity was intentionally slowed for Ukraine. Musk said the Whitehouse had the say not him. The slowdown happened right as Trump was pressuring Ukraine publicly.
In Ohio, data centers spiked electricity costs, provided few jobs other than temporary construction jobs, and thanks to tax deals given to the companies by the Ohio government, the data center companies pay little taxes. They do however, use local services like firefighting when the data centers have fires.
On social media, people are most likely to spread sensational bullshit that sparks their emotions. People share a lot of stuff created by bots or foreign troll farms, but bots and troll farms don’t make stuff go viral…average people on social media sharing and liking such content does.
Elon Musk owns space. Most things being put into space are being put there by Musk’s SpaceX. The United States country and government are dependent upon Musk to get into space and Europe is dependent on Musk for its space-facilitated defense. It’s great to have such a fantastic company in the US, but Musk controls too much and has too much power.
The US military may be heading to a point where if it needs a new weapon, or much more of a current one, and it is in the middle of a war, one business owner can say no for whatever reason and greatly weaken America’s ability to fight.
The US military may be in deep shit if a new drone war starts. Inertia, bureaucracy, and fear of making the wrong choice are limiting the American military’s adaption, and this could lead to many many more dead Americans if the US gets into a modern drone war.