Deforestation

As a young person, these data centers genuinely scare me to my core. The thought of our generation, and up coming generations, growing up in a world with no fresh water or healthy environment is something I can’t bear.

Data centers shouldnt even exist. We should be putting our planet first instead of this wasteful machinery. They’re poisoning our waters .

I know with the raise of Artificial Intelligence , it’s becoming both a tool, a huge liability and a danger. I won’t be a hypocrite, I’ve used AI before and it’s quickly being imbedded into everything we use which I hate. Our water supply and wildlife are in jeopardy due to the AI data centers using up billions of gallons of water, to the point, where communities where data centers have already been constructed have more contaminated and lower levels of water than ever seen before. As we all know water is a necessity for life. We use it to hydrate ourselves, bathe, cook, clean , in healthcare , energy, to grow produce and if our local bodies of water is healthy, it’s safe to eat produce caught from there and to swim in it to. By building more data centers,
in the near and far future it will serve as a danger, liability, and hinderance to communities near it. Even in my community we’ve had more droughts occurring in our local water source and data centers would make it worse if built in or near my community. Our wild life should also be top priority as we heavily rely on them in more ways than one and with the increasing number of deforestation, pollution in our water supply and destroying the ecosystem and biodiversity we are also destroying what keeps our environment functioning and stable which keeps us stable. Not everything we rely on is made out of concrete and metal and synthetic vegetation. I’m sure no one wants to use polluted water and water filters can only take us so far.