"Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns"
While I'm not against efforts to improve air quality it's amazing the amount of twisting and fear mongering that goes on all around us. We've had wayyyyy worse air pollution in the recent past. Until the 2000s or thereabouts many places had crazy bad air quality. No matter how you look at it, no matter how bad things may seem from absurd fear mongering in the media, the situation isn't anywhere near as bad as being projected.
When I was a young person smoking was common and it was even the norm around young people. In cars, in airports, in restaurants.
Cars were wayyyy worse polluters than they are today.
Just prior to my birth dumping of all sorts of bad shit into the environment was the norm. Factories belched smoke like a mother fucker. And trucks, does anyone remember the black soot that shot out of those???
Undoubtedly the generators being used in the short term to power data centers and AI aren't optimal and I'm sure they'll have a negative impact within a certain distance around those data centers.
However these things aren't last I checked being built down town. They're in fields and surrounded by farmland mostly. There are some examples you can point to of housing developments sitting nearby, but it's far far far from being a major problem. Rather it's likely the best course of action is something along transitioning to cleaner sources and/or buying up the properties surrounding these data centers.
These power plants are also used elsewhere as means to supply power on a temporary basis when spikes occur. While not quite to the same degree as running these 24/7 it's an issue that can be resolved if governments doesn't interfere.
While I'm not against efforts to improve air quality it's amazing the amount of twisting and fear mongering that goes on all around us. We've had wayyyyy worse air pollution in the recent past. Until the 2000s or thereabouts many places had crazy bad air quality. No matter how you look at it, no matter how bad things may seem from absurd fear mongering in the media, the situation isn't anywhere near as bad as being projected.
When I was a young person smoking was common and it was even the norm around young people. In cars, in airports, in restaurants.
Cars were wayyyy worse polluters than they are today.
Just prior to my birth dumping of all sorts of bad shit into the environment was the norm. Factories belched smoke like a mother fucker. And trucks, does anyone remember the black soot that shot out of those???
Undoubtedly the generators being used in the short term to power data centers and AI aren't optimal and I'm sure they'll have a negative impact within a certain distance around those data centers.
However these things aren't last I checked being built down town. They're in fields and surrounded by farmland mostly. There are some examples you can point to of housing developments sitting nearby, but it's far far far from being a major problem. Rather it's likely the best course of action is something along transitioning to cleaner sources and/or buying up the properties surrounding these data centers.
These power plants are also used elsewhere as means to supply power on a temporary basis when spikes occur. While not quite to the same degree as running these 24/7 it's an issue that can be resolved if governments doesn't interfere.