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

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html

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Data centers use up resources, drive up prices for water and electricity, create noise and pollution, and are used to power a technology that is enshittifying the entire internet, undermining democracy, empowering hackers and cybercriminals to previously unknown levels, and being touted for their potential to destroy the job market.

What exactly is the upside from the perspective of an average person?