Data center PR never mentions the burning gas or burning tires part.
These companies probably welcome investing in pointless and shoddy AI just to justify the mass layoffs so they can boost their stock value.
A black hole of energy use…
404 Media - 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community Roshan Abraham · Jun 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM On Threads, Zuckerberg boasted that his company was “building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” posting a map of Manhattan along with the data center overlaid. Zuckerberg went on to say that over the coming years, AI “will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership. Let's go build! (arm muscle emoji)” What Zuckerberg did not mention is that "Let's go build" refers not only to the massive data center but also three new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants and a transmission line to fuel it serviced by Entergy Louisiana, the region’s energy monopoly. Key details about Meta’s investments with the data center remain vague, and Meta’s contracts with Entergy are largely cloaked from public scrutiny.
It's so bonkers that not only do they not mention these "buildings with computers" come with burning tires or methane gas burning on site, or vibrating the neighborhood from the computer fans driving people mad… They claim AI data centers will bring jobs even though we know data centers don't need a lot of people, and which "create jobs" is almost always a bait and switch anyway, but at the same time they're claiming AI data centers will bring jobs to the community, they're selling this AI to corporations by saying they will cause an AI jobs apocalypse and allow these companies to do mass layoffs, which they're already doing, even though it's clear that this isn't going well for operations or public sentiment, but layoffs boost stock values and help CEOs, so it probably doesn't even matter to them,.
Futurism. Jun 18, 11:10 AM EDT by Joe Wilkins - Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake - "The human touch remains irreplaceable in many interactions." Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. Still, that didn't stop business executives from swarming to the software like flies to roadside carrion, gutting entire departments worth of human workers to make way for their AI replacements. But as AI agents have yet to even pay for themselves — spilling their employer's embarrassing secrets all the while — more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype. A recent survey by the business analysis and consulting firm Gartner, for instance, found that out of 163 business executives, a full half said their plans to "significantly reduce their customer service workforce" would be abandoned by 2027.
These companies probably welcome investing in pointless and shoddy AI just to justify the mass layoffs so they can boost their stock value, who cares if it pollutes our communities and uses exponentially more fossil fuel, and they don't even bother using it anyway in the end.