@jerryudubpg.bsky.social:
Meta is so fnnn desperate. Be careful if you are a regular FB or Insta user. Zuck has your personal life in his container. Don’t believe me, why is he willing to poach for a VERY high salary from open ai.
@shankspeare.bsky.social:
Oopsies.. AI is bullshit once again.
@eemc2.bsky.social:
I caught AI referencing The Heritage Foundation regarding climate change. I wish I had captured the dialogue. But you can see that AI’s references can include sources that are questionable. I am getting the impression that is can also use social media.
I mean Mechahitler didn’t come from nowhere.
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social:
Meta is accused of “using faulty data to train an AI climate tool, raising false hopes about the feasibility of removing CO2 at scale”
This seems like Big News about three things: the vulnerability of AI to bias; the sketchy politics of Meta;
the inherent idiocy of CO2 capture and storage
@davidmfoley.bsky.social:
Meta’s AI raised false hopes about AI.
@bowprow.bsky.social:
Sequestration takes capture & storage.
The capture part is expensive. The storage part is hugely expensive, especially for it to remain stored.
Geoengineered climate solutions are expensive.
THE economical solution we have right now is electrification with clean energy generation & reforestation.
And no human baby making for a few years to give earth and atmosphere a chance
Meta’s AI climate tool raised false hope of CO2 removal, scientists say, Big Tech group accused of using inaccurate data in effort to identify materials that can attract carbon dioxide from the air by Kenza Bryan, July 13, 2025, Financial Times
Meta has been accused of using faulty data to train an artificial intelligence climate tool, with scientists claiming the Big Tech group raised false hopes about the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale.
The tech company said last year that it had helped researchers with the elusive problem of identifying materials to efficiently remove carbon dioxide from air, by publishing a “groundbreaking” data set on which it also trained free-to-use machine learning models.
But none of the 135 materials that Meta’s research said could bind CO2 “strongly” had that characteristic, while some did not exist, according to researchers from Heriot-Watt University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,” said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta’s results as “nonsense”.
“You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.”while wasting one hell of a lot of water and energy, and consequently polluting for nothing, in the process
Meta said in response that its data set was based on “valid calculations useful for training machine learning models”. It added that it had “long believed in open sourcing technology . . . because that approach promotes collaboration and innovation”. I don’t believe a word Zuckerberg and his evil team of fake fuckers say
Tech companies have invested in bringing down the cost of CO₂ removal techniques — such as direct air capture (DAC) — as they prepare to offset their own carbon footprints, which have grown as they race to build generative AI tools.
Although DAC is not yet operating at scale, Microsoft is one of the sector’s biggest investors, while Meta has committed to buying credits from start-ups that are developing it.
The findings by scientists from Meta and from the Georgia Institute of Technology were published last year in a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society.
A.J. Medford, an associate professor at Georgia Tech who helped author the paper, said the critique had missed the point of the research. He said the team did not set out “to conclusively identify new materials”, but intended to experiment with more sophisticated materials screening techniques, as well as identify new challenges and questions for the field.
After performing 40mn calculations in the field of quantum mechanics, Meta’s team created a database of chemical structures known as metal-organic frameworks, which it predicted could strongly attract CO₂ while not attracting other components of air like water vapour.
The project required hundreds of times more computing than the average academic computing lab could do in a year, Meta said. The data was then used to train an “AI model that is orders of magnitude faster than existing chemistry simulations”, to identify further promising materials, it said.
Researchers who sought to reproduce the results said Meta’s team had overestimated the materials’ binding capacities to CO₂ and that its open-source AI tools were not fit for purpose. A key problem was the use of erroneously described chemical elements from an academic database that had since been updated, they argued.
Meta said the materials had been identified as only “promising and deserving of more thorough inspection”.
It added that in some cases the calculations in the data set “correspond to implausible or highly unstable structures because of their electronic configurations or otherwise” and that the authors had disclosed this.
US President Donald Trump’s slashing of subsidies for clean energy projects in the US has caused anxiety in the carbon capture sector, although tax breaks for the technology were largely protected in his tax and spending bill.
Climeworks, a frontrunner in direct air capture technology, which does not rely on the materials identified by Meta’s team, said in May that it had cut more than 100 jobs. On Wednesday, however, Climeworks said it had surpassed $1bn in equity funding, which the company said signalled investor confidence.
Wijnand Stoefs, a policy lead on carbon removals at the non-profit Carbon Market Watch, said DAC technology had been “enormously overhyped” by tech groups including Meta. The technology’s high expense and energy needs compared to replacing fossil fuels with clean energy meant its proponents faced a “deep crisis”.
Scientists nonetheless welcomed Meta’s attempts to tackle an expensive and complex research question that has gripped climate-focused chemists.
“By publishing everything openly, Meta enabled the research community to dig in and build better tools,” said Susana Garcia, professor of chemical and process engineering at Heriot-Watt University.
Additional reporting by Martha Muir in New York
@foodandwater.bsky.social:
Our research found that, by 2028, AI data centers in the U.S. could require as much as 720 billion gallons of water annually just to cool their servers
As this technology grows, we need regulations to protect our most basic resource!Regulations and laws are ignored by rich rapists, same as how they ignore the law when they rape and traffic kids (Epstein anyone?), and their rich corrupt bought off politicos help them get away with it. The only protection for our water and energy, is for NO data centres near any communities or drinking water supplies. Let the rich fuckers find and purify their own water for their greedy biased stupid AI.
‘I can’t drink the water’ – life next to a US data centre by Michelle Fleury & Nathalie Jimenez, July 10, 2025, BBC
When Beverly Morris retired in 2016, she thought she had found her dream home – a peaceful stretch of rural Georgia, surrounded by trees and quiet.
Today, it’s anything but.
Just 400 yards (366m) from her front porch in Mansfield, Georgia, sits a large, windowless building filled with servers, cables, and blinking lights.
It’s a data centre – one of many popping up across small-town America, and around the globe, to power everything from online banking to artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT.
“I can’t live in my home with half of my home functioning and no water,” Ms Morris says. “I can’t drink the water.”
She believes the construction of the centre, which is owned by Meta (the parent company of Facebook), disrupted her private well, causing an excessive build-up of sediment. Ms Morris now hauls water in buckets to flush her toilet.Welcome to the frac club
She says she had to fix the plumbing in her kitchen to restore water pressure. But the water that comes of the tap still has residue in it.
“I’m afraid to drink the water, but I still cook with it, and brush my teeth with it,” says Morris. “Am I worried about it? Yes.”
Meta, however, says the two aren’t connected.Meta is a big bully ugly liar and massive data thief. I wouldn’t trust anything they said, ever, not even in a court of law under oath
In a statement to the BBC, Meta said that “being a good neighbour is a priority”.Pffft! What good is having a lying water ruining rich rapist as your neighbour? Encana spewed the same crap repeatedly, as the company also repeatedly illegally frac’d my water supply, and that of my community. I was the only one blamed, punished, and defamed by our regulator as being a terrorist, bla bla bla, and even lied about by judges in their rulings. Encana made no one whole, they just went off to NEBC and frac’d the shit out of good people there, and changed names and ran away to Nazi USA to escape any accountability.
The company commissioned an independent groundwater study to investigate Morris’s concerns. According to the report, its data centre operation did “not adversely affect groundwater conditions in the area”.Of course the report said that, the company that wrote it wouldn’t get paid if they said anything remotely resembling the truth about what happened to the water.
While Meta disputes that it has caused the problems with Ms Morris’ water, there’s no doubt, in her estimation, that the company has worn out its welcome as her neighbour.
“This was my perfect spot,” she says. “But it isn’t anymore.”
We tend to think of the cloud as something invisible – floating above us in the digital ether. But the reality is very physical.
The cloud lives in over 10,000 data centres around the world, most of them located in the US, followed by the UK and Germany.
With AI now driving a surge in online activity, that number is growing fast. And with them, more complaints from nearby residents.
The US boom is being challenged by a rise in local activism – with $64bn (£47bn) in projects delayed or blocked nationwide, according to a report from pressure group Data Center Watch.
And the concerns aren’t just about construction. It’s also about water usage. Keeping those servers cool requires a lot of water.
“These are very hot processors,” Mark Mills of the National Center for Energy Analytics testified before Congress back in April. “It takes a lot of water to cool them down.”
Many centres use evaporative cooling systems, where water absorbs heat and evaporates – similar to how sweat wicks away heat from our bodies.
On hot days, a single facility can use millions of gallons.
One study estimates that AI-driven data centres could consume 1.7 trillion gallons of water globally by 2027.
Few places illustrate this tension more clearly than Georgia – one of the fastest-growing data centre markets in the US.
Its humid climate provides a natural and more cost-effective source of water for cooling data centres, making it attractive to developers. But that abundance may come at a cost.
Gordon Rogers is the executive director of Flint Riverkeeper, a non-profit advocacy group that monitors the health of Georgia’s Flint River. He takes us to a creek downhill from a new construction site for a data centre being built by US firm Quality Technology Services (QTS).
George Dietz, a local volunteer, scoops up a sample of the water into a clear plastic bag. It’s cloudy and brown.
“It shouldn’t be that colour,” he says. To him, this suggests sediment runoff – and possibly flocculants. These are chemicals used in construction to bind soil and prevent erosion, but if they escape into the water system, they can create sludge.
QTS says its data centres meet high environmental standards and bring millions in local tax revenue.so what, ruined water will destroy many millions more in tax revenue already there. also most environmental standards regarding water in North America only cater to rich industry, never to the needs of nature and communities that live invaded by the fuckers
While construction is often carried out by third-party contractors, local residents are the ones left to deal with the consequences.
“They shouldn’t be doing it,” Mr Rogers says. “A larger wealthier property owner does not have more property rights than a smaller, less wealthy property owner.”But the rape stories are always the same, always always always. Still Americans voted an adjudicated rapist and reported pedophile as president, so, expect water loss and contamination to be a billion times worse than it already is. The Tech boys, notably the hideous heinous Zuckerberg, bowed to the rapist king, and bought his ass. They’ll never be found in the wrong, same in Harper Con Carney Canada. I expect ordinary citizens in all communities with data centres to be out of water in a year or two, the rich fuckers will take it all.
Tech giants say they are aware of the issues and are taking action.
“Our goal is that by 2030, we’ll be putting more water back into the watersheds and communities where we’re operating data centres, than we’re taking out,”fucking liar. you snivvling piece of abusive shit! but, no wonder, dude works for monster Bezos says Will Hewes, global water stewardship lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which runs more data centres than any other company globally.
He says AWS is investing in projects like leak repairs, rainwater harvesting, and using treated wastewater for cooling. In Virginia, the company is working with farmers to reduce nutrient pollution in Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the US.
In South Africa and India – where AWS doesn’t use water for cooling – the company is still investing in water access and quality initiatives.
In the Americas, Mr Hewes says, water is only used on about 10% of the hottest days each year.
Still, the numbers add up. A single AI query – for example, a request to ChatGPT – can use about as much water as a small bottle you’d buy from the corner shop. Multiply that by billions of queries a day, and the scale becomes clear.CARE ABOUT WATER? CARE ABOUT ENERGY POLLUTION AND WASTE? DO NOT USE AI!!! USE YOUR OWN BRAIN INSTEAD. You’ll have water and a brain that fuctions
Prof Rajiv Garg teaches cloud computing at Emory University in Atlanta. He says these data centres aren’t going away – if anything, they’re becoming the backbone of modern life.
“There’s no turning back,” Prof Garg says.
But there is a path forward. The key, he argues, is long-term thinking: smarter cooling systems, rainwater harvesting, and more efficient infrastructure.Where the hell do you think ground water comes from? If AI sucks up all the rainwater, what then?
In the short term, data centres will create “a huge strain”, he admits. But the industry is starting to shift toward sustainability.BULLSHIT! I thought frac’ers were liars, the tech billionaires and their hoards lie more frequently and without any fucking imagination. AI will never be sustainable, just like frac’ing will never be either. AI and frac’ing are not needed, they are merely forced on us, to make rich fuckers richer
And yet, that’s little consolation to homeowners like Beverly Morris – stuck between yesterday’s dream and tomorrow’sAI promises that will not come true infrastructure.
Data centres have become more than just an industry trend – they’re now part of national policy. President Donald Trump recently vowed to build the largest AI infrastructure project in history, calling it “a future powered by American data”.Ya, so what, he’s just another rich rapist who does not give a shit for the rule of law, or kids, and he’s in my view, the stupidest most hideous man on earth who lies non stop, like the AI techies
Back in Georgia, the sun beats down through thick humidity – a reminder of why the state is so attractive to data centre developers.
For locals, the future of tech is already here.
And it’s loud, thirsty, and sometimes hard to live next to.I think it’s always hard to live by, unless you are a rock.
As AI grows, the challenge is clear: how to power tomorrow’s digital world without draining the most basic resource of all – water.
Correction: This article originally said that Beverly Morris lives in Fayette County, Georgia, and has been amended to explain that she lives in Mansfield, Georgia.
This documentary below is excellent, highly recommend must watch, as idiot humans pollute more and more, and the earth keeps heating more and more, it will soon be too hot on earth for data centres, Musk will have to build them all on Mars
Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather (Full Documentary) 40:57 Min by OoS Pictures, July 10, 2025
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AI is coming for the world’s energy and water.
Like frac’ers, AI devours fresh water and is grossly energy intensive and polluting.
AI and the death of dignity. Another reason why I hate AI.
2023: Why I hate AI