And speaking of morons, you'd have to be one to think this is a good idea, that, or wilfully blind.

I don't know anything about you but as a person with wealth in a position of power I expect you're either out of your depth and too much of an asshole to admit it, or a lying monster.

I'd put good money on you being both.

Honestly, it's kinda sad to see the EU having become a shell of it's former self, shitting on human rights, forcing citizens into poverty, forcing small and medium sized businesses (especially in the starting stage) to go insolvent and close for the benefit of large US tech corporations, and now pledging to make living conditions around these planned datacenters worse for the people living there, putting more strain on the electricity grid for overhyped autocorrect instead of,,,yk,,,ACs so your citizens don't fucking die beneath your feet, but it's all fine as long as the shareholder value is good enough, right?

Which lobby group bribed y'all this time?

It's not a huge amount in comparison to the total budget, it's an enormous amount in comparison to most other individual projects that the EU is investing in.

Right, so we don't have enough water to cool our existing nuclear power plants or irrigate fields that produce our food, so I'm sure this is a brilliant idea!

Just make sure to put them somewhere out of reach from the fires. (We are probably running out of water to fight those effectively too, but as long as we can create AI slop, we'll be fine?)

Please reconsider, @HennaVirkkunen - the value really isn't there.

Stop following the hype built on lies.
Stop feeding trees, water and electricity the natural world to an economic lie thats going to crash.

Take care of the people and planet and their needs instead of the bigtech bros.

It isnt very hard to see the road you are taking is going nowhere.

What are our options as member countries and as citizens to prevent more of these datacenters from being built?

Can we opt out of having our data and identities processed by datacenters?

What is the commission and European parliament doing to protect us from the harmful effects of datacenters, including:

• Air pollution, associated with illness and climate change;
• Water pollution and heat dumping;
• Noise pollution and quakes;
• Using improportonate amounts of electricity from the common power grid and driving up electricity prices for everyone;
• Supplementing their electricity with polluting diesel and fossil gas powered generators;
• Using improportonate volumes of municipal water, especially during heat waves in which our governments are restricting water for personal use?

Thank you and have a nice day.

on the other hand, 30 billion , over a few years, for capex, is not that much money for the EU
right ?

and IF you accept that machine learning is AI, THEN alpha fold is a clear example of great benefit to society

also, I think it is true that for the last 200 years, *every new promising tech, canals, railroads, etc, has seen a huge boom bust in CAPEX

If you haven't noticed the world is burning and dirty data centres is absolutely not what humans need now.

#StopDatacentre #resistAI #AI