Mississippi's Air Quality Is Worsening Amid AI Data Center Boom, Report Finds(mississippifreepress.org)

2 pointsby gnabgib2 months ago2 comments

Mississippi's Air Quality Is Worsening Amid AI Data Center Boom, Report Finds

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippis-air-quality-is-worsening-amid-ai-data-center-boom-report-finds/

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blowsand2 months ago

Headlines that vaguely attempt to infer causality or even unproven correlation are getting increasingly frustrating to sift through.

“The data predates a boom in data center development across Mississippi.”

fulafel2 months ago

This is terrible. Also terrible and underappreciated are the co2 emissions, we urgently need to outlaw fossil electricity generation, esp for data centers.