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Politicians Blame Los Angeles Fires on Explosion of AI Data Centers (futurism.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

There's so much hand waving and speculation here. For example, the amount of water that Microsoft uses to cool its data centers is a global number right? Not California specific. And for that matter, if those data centers are in the Bay area that's not going to matter for firefighting in Los Angeles, I wouldn't think. AI makes for kind of a convenient scapegoat right now.

Also, I thought we were blaming the fires on climate change and DEI?