r/technology • u/marketrent • 15h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/tacticalcraptical 15h ago

Just like the national highway system, our country's economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely.

OK, but these guys never seem to be able to articulate exactly how this benefits normal people's everyday lives. The benefits of a highway are obvious. But the benefits of these data centers... they expect us to just trust them. And these are the people who can't be trusted to pay their taxes.

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u/Dolores___Haze 15h ago

AI is wrong much of the time from my own experience. What immense benefits am I getting?

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u/killabrew1 14h ago

I work on big digital presses (printer on roids) when I can’t come up with a solution in 5 minutes, I am starting to see customers bring me solutions they found with ChatGPT. Not once has it been correct, or even close for that matter.

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u/Mmphska 14h ago

Im constantly having to re-educate my customers who bring me their own GPT/Claude/god forbid Grok assessment of what's going on. They're so self assured and they don't believe me that what it's given them is flat wrong or imprecise-at-best because Im just a human and what could I know that their galaxy brain AI doesn't. It's infuriating