Much has rightly been made of the monstrous amounts of resources – water, electricity, land – data centers use.

Data centers that are now being built, we are told, to feed the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Data centers are being called “data centers?”  Because the far more truthful “surveillance centers” and “human replacement centers” would be an even tougher sell.

It’s fun – for a little while longer, anyway – to ask AI about the damage being done by AI.  Because as biased as Big Tech’s regular search algorithms are?  That bias doesn’t yet appear to be nearly as hard-programmed into their AI responses.

I searched Lord High Bias Master Google for “data centers use lots of water.”  Old school Google search delivered a bunch of links – many of them to content downplaying data centers’ massive water use.

But above the avalanche of links – was Google’s AI (Gemini) response.  Which, shall we say, didn’t downplay data centers’ massive water and electricity use: (more…)