@josephpolitano.bsky.social:
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won’t build killbots for the government should be terrifying
@signalfire6.bsky.social:
HOT water. Guess the local river life doesn’t matter. Can’t these AI geniuses figure out how to produce their own water & electrical supplies? They’re going to have to once we blast them all off to Mars or the Moon.
@volts.wtf:
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers by Brett Mills, Feb 26, 2026, NBC4i
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater directly into rivers and streams.
The new permit would apply to water that circulates through all current or future data centers, regardless of location.
Residents like John Scholl shared concerns about the environmental impact if that permit is approved.
“The EPA is supposed to be protecting the environment; it’s in the title,” Scholl said. “And this draft essentially just makes it clear that they understand that the data centers themselves are going to be releasing pollutants.”
The first page of the draft reads: “It has been determined that a lowering of water quality of various waters of the state associated with granting coverage under this permit is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development in the state of Ohio.”
Big fat orange bullshit! AI is a greed bubble created by kid abusing/raping billionaires!
This is not justification enough for Scholl.
“Even for the jobs they create, they’re mainly short-term,” Scholl said. “When you’re building it, it creates about 1,700 jobs. That’s mainly construction workers. That’s mainly people and contractors to build these centers. But after that, it only creates 157, like, permanent jobs.”
With nearly 200 data centers throughout the state and more to come, many people like Dublin resident Amy Swank are asking if the reward outweighs the risk, especially regarding human health.
“I think that there are real questions about what is in the water that comes out of data centers,” Swank said. “When that water leaves, you know, what further chemicals does it contain? What microplastics does it contain? Are our wastewater treatment plants able to address those? It reads like there will be zero treatment of the waste before dumping into waterways, killing most life in them. AI is lying stolen error-laden crap, totally useless to humans; it’s not worth poisoning communities, rivers, farms and air, etc., for.Those are real concerns.”
Though the permit has not been approved, some residents still worry that the impact could not only affect the environment, but also that Ohioans will carry the cost.
“It’s really the Ohio taxpayers that are paying for this because they will pay for any remediation that is required,” Swank said. “They will pay for any monitoring that the Ohio EPA has to do.”
The full proposed permit can be read below.
The Ohio EPA declined to comment on the proposal, but provided NBC4 with a fact sheet on the permit.
@niall-mcauley.bsky.social:
Study finds no-one should listen to AI.
About anything.
@shiftkicker.bsky.social:
Am a moderator for a forum that supports people affected by a particular health condition. For some reason it’s a magnet for people with health anxiety.
It’s been evident for a while now that “AI” is magnifying their anxiety to sometimes life destroying levels. Turns out you can get it to agree with you based on how you frame your question and it will provide plausible sounding pretend data and cite non-existent research to support a self diagnosis of a terminal disease.
An absolute danger to both mental and physical health at this time.