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@blipco5
April 3, 2026 at 11:49 am
Most of us already know that AI data centers are sucking up our fresh water and electricity. We see it on our utility bills. But we already know when we raise our concerns, we get a big ‘tough sh*t’ from our government.
@user-kq2tc5hy5g
April 3, 2026 at 12:40 pm
who’s ‘we’?
@blipco5
April 3, 2026 at 1:21 pm
@u@user-kq2tc5hy5gEvidently not ‘you’.
@user-kq2tc5hy5g
April 3, 2026 at 1:34 pm
@blipco5 how can you tell?
@blipco5
April 3, 2026 at 1:59 pm
@user-kq2tc5hy5g. Go away troll. 😂
@virajsingh846
April 3, 2026 at 11:52 am
The point is everybody is like boycott AI but will watch Netflix for 3 hours without knowing they both use the same data centres
@user-kq2tc5hy5g
April 3, 2026 at 12:45 pm
how do you know they both use the same data centers?
@alexbayne289
April 3, 2026 at 1:03 pm
The amount of energy used between the two are very different. The processing load of video streaming is not nearly the same as an llm.
@74HOLLE
April 3, 2026 at 11:55 am
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@ThomasWash45
April 3, 2026 at 11:57 am
AI kills the grid because Leftists are averse to Americans having nuclear energy. Classic Central Planner (communist) artificial scarcity.
@angelic710
April 3, 2026 at 12:50 pm
But then let AI grow- faster and bigger than human intelligence. Is that alright? This isn’t a left or right problem. It is a central problem. Why are we letting AI grow so much at the cost of better life for our communities. Do we really need it so much?
@MohamedAlarbi-h2l
April 3, 2026 at 11:59 am
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@dirtydimes80
April 3, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Leave the God part out, and you’ve got a brilliant comment.
@azducatiramirez5470
April 3, 2026 at 1:41 pm
God doesn’t exist, also Santa Claus doesn’t exist either.
@bandwidthpiggy9378
April 3, 2026 at 12:02 pm
So… The “idle” cpu scheduler except with energy budgets and time shares.
@Akira282
April 3, 2026 at 12:58 pm
I always find it humorous seeing humans talk about the future as if there is one.
@MrNoipe
April 3, 2026 at 4:20 pm
ok doomer
@MohamedZakariaMamine
April 3, 2026 at 1:31 pm
يوجد الكثير ممن هو مهتم بهذا المجال ، عليكم بالتركيز عليه خاصة ، في فيديوهاتكم
@auro1986
April 3, 2026 at 1:39 pm
real story is written by those hiding backstage, while you watch these videos to learn communication to overcome stage fright
@timeenoughforart
April 3, 2026 at 2:11 pm
Would not be enough electricity. These centers demand whole cities worth of power.
@jenniferspring8741
April 3, 2026 at 2:38 pm
Great work!
@xionglin2009
April 3, 2026 at 2:52 pm
isnt it easier to just equip lots of battery to the data center though i mean it can be part of cost and those company has money
@matthewwhalen7296
April 3, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Not mentioning the newest and best technology that could meet demand, which is CCGT natural gas facilities. If interconnection que times are reduced, more plants could be built at a quicker pace to meet demand.
@granbeckett8113
April 3, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Thinking that companies will make things cheaper is delusional.
@Old_Wizard_Hobbies
April 3, 2026 at 4:23 pm
Companies don’t prioritize efficient code, since previously power and compute were abundant.
@AdityaMehendale
April 3, 2026 at 4:34 pm
If you are a milk-farmer, and you can sell your milk to home “A” for $1 a liter, and you can sell it to factory “B” for $2 a liter, why would you ask Factory “B” to “slow down”? Even if you have solar-powered cows, that produce 5x as much milk, the math is still the same: Two is bigger than One
I wonder who financed this “research”.
@sh-zm7xl
April 3, 2026 at 4:57 pm
Not a fan of AI
@ralphtisdale3428
April 3, 2026 at 4:58 pm
Not in the USA. Trump cancelled wind farm contracts and all renewable tax incentives. Europe, China and most governments worldwide financially support renewables. Trump, the GOP have been bought by the fossil fuel industries.The MAGA cult who elected them have been brainwashed by their propagandizing and labeling anything “green” as being “lib”…putting us decades behind while leaving us short of future energy demands. That mentality became apparent the day Reagan tore the solar system off the Whitehouse installed by Carter..
@shanefiddle
April 3, 2026 at 8:02 pm
yup
@williamscustomwoodworking
April 3, 2026 at 5:36 pm
Or, we could just stop hyping this bs.
@mb2718ll
April 3, 2026 at 7:10 pm
AI adoption could use some slowing down.
@RamiusStorm5664
April 3, 2026 at 7:30 pm
CBDC meets forever worldwide blackout when all money is digital, word of God (Me). Plutocracy and technocracy are doomed.
@Markuswolvson
April 3, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Why aren’t the filthy rich people using ai ty ok better the planet 🎉
@Loki-rascal
April 3, 2026 at 7:50 pm
AI rocks! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤮
@shanefiddle
April 3, 2026 at 8:03 pm
Better yet: make the LLMs more efficient. Do away with data centers. It is already beginning to happen. Some LLMs can be run on a single desktop computer.
@mr.e170
April 3, 2026 at 8:16 pm
Ai data centers must start generating electricity to power themselves. Federal law should require them to be responsible for their own power requirements after a certain load max has been met. Essentially forcing them to build out renewables to make up their excessive power requirements.
@markgibsons_SWpottery_art
April 3, 2026 at 10:39 pm
In two years all of these figures will be obsolete, and the system will be just getting going… There is no sufficient foreseen figures… A plan of the future based on statistics of yesterday… That is American af
@richtrem978
April 3, 2026 at 10:41 pm
AI is the most stupid choice for humanity. It is bad and focus on making a minority ritcher while destroying the life of millions.
@teratikkoanan7671
April 3, 2026 at 11:30 pm
No AI cann’t wait .If data centre can not provide power availability , AI company will move to others. SMR, self power data centre is the better solution.
@teristeapot1823
April 4, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Yes, they stand to make a fortune so they should provide their own solar and cooling system that doesn’t use up a community’s energy and water supply.
@rajeshrana9717
April 4, 2026 at 12:06 am
AI is accelerating our journey towards apocalypse! 👹👹👹👹
Global warming and long term electronic waste management is a disastrous writing on the wall.
@rajeshrana9717
April 4, 2026 at 12:06 am
AI is accelerating our journey towards apocalypse! 👹👹👹👹 I precisely mean the doomsday.
Global warming and long term electronic waste management is a disastrous writing on the wall.
@edwinlin8846
April 5, 2026 at 6:04 pm
Ok, what are you going to do about this issue? Moan and groan or actually try to solve this doomsday problem you propose?
@peterston4039
April 4, 2026 at 12:26 am
In the US some of the Data Centers built re in areas already water stressed, this will make it worse. Millions of people are at risk out west to run out of water. Now we build Data Centers in Arizona, Texas…. Where is the water coming from and why do they get priority over people?
@urbanstrencan
April 4, 2026 at 2:48 am
AI energy costs mover😢😢
@dancesportdave
April 4, 2026 at 10:57 am
I’m sorry, but that doesn’t make any sense at all 😅
@welcome.421
April 4, 2026 at 2:47 pm
TED | Thanks for contribution ❤
@paulscott4883
April 4, 2026 at 2:55 pm
Not a smart person. Should not allow these blah blah blah people who know nothing about Ohms law on TED.
@paulis7319
April 4, 2026 at 4:10 pm
For people who live near data centers it has more to do with the 24/7 noise. I live 200 feet from a super busy interstate filled with semi trucks 24/7 and the noise never stops unless there’s a crash or something that slows or stops traffic for a while. I can’t imagine how annoying it would be to live next to a data center that’s even louder and never stops.
@NathanSellers-i7o
April 4, 2026 at 5:21 pm
I love this fusion of competing brands. Feels like a solid answer once you throw in some heat batteries.
@teristeapot1823
April 4, 2026 at 8:56 pm
It’s only ONE small solution. She’s wrong that this will be the only way. NOPE. They should have their own solar and batteries and better solutions to cooling rather than using up a community’s water supply.
@nikolaykolev5143
April 4, 2026 at 5:38 pm
Oh my god..this is a huge step into a wrong direction! Since we now know almost for sure that AI will prefer to shut down a hospital rather than kill itself in peak hours! This is so fundamentally wrong! It’s like giving a dog the key to where you keep the food! What do you think will happen there? Sorry but this is not the best solution at all. AI orchestrating power grids where the most demanding element is AI itself! Are you sure!?
@iPhone-ss321
April 5, 2026 at 5:27 pm
Yes all that word salad to basically say this
@HaroldJackson
April 4, 2026 at 6:16 pm
This is Bull stink! I’m 70 and I have never seen an electric bill go down! And it never will.
@YCChooi
April 4, 2026 at 6:49 pm
“…building a sustainable AI future.”
But not the sustainable development of AI, that meets current needs WITHOUT compromising the needs of future generations. 🤦♂
@alexisdespland4939
April 4, 2026 at 7:08 pm
move a large portion of the new data center into space where the extreme cold of space to cool it. also rewtie laws to force them to be more energy effeicent as well as smarter and more useful.
@UndisclosedPerson0
April 4, 2026 at 7:16 pm
I don’t know, some fan boi saying they consume less than a burger shop
@hardkandie23
April 4, 2026 at 7:45 pm
Are you kidding me? Your presumption assumes that ANYONE except tech billionaires ever WANT AI! Our world is on fire, if you haven’t noticed, and doubling AI’s power demand by 2030 is only making it worse. All in the name of increased “productivity,” which is corporate speak for increasing profit while disenfranchising vast portions of the working class. Cool, right? I think you are a corporate shill. I felt TED talks had sold out years ago, and stopped engaging with with them. Now I realize that I was not mistaken. Hope you, and your progeny, enjoy the future you are building.
@hardkandie23
April 4, 2026 at 8:35 pm
Look. Ceding the control of our individual self-agency to machines controlled by a handfull of billionaires is NOT a good idea, in case you thought it might be. It didn’t work out well before, when the tech bro’s decided to maximize their profits by capturing our attention with the worst common denominator emotional inputs, so that they could harvest our data and then manipulate us better, while becoming fabulously rich; and AI will be worse by some magnitude. Don’t fool yourself, AI is not a tool– it is an intelligence that supplants your need to use tools, to need to understand, think, or actuate your own decisions. You get to off-lode all of the tedious things that you don’t want to do or that make you uncomfortable, so that you can always have a frictionless experience of endless scrolling or video-gaming or whatever other dopamine addiction that you feel defines your identity. If any of you think that that is good, well, then, maybe, I am wasting my time. If we all think that the point of life is about finding a way so that we don’t have to do anything, or struggle to have meaningful breakthroughs, or experience the whole spectrum of emotion when we interact with other people, or feel things that we cannot quantify; well, then, I will retire to Bedlam.
And listen, @user-kq2tc5hy5g, give me a five word response; I would love to be graced by the adolescence of your trolling.
@teristeapot1823
April 4, 2026 at 8:55 pm
Data Centers should provide their own energy sources. They stand to make a TON of money. They can have their own solar and battery storage. Water – not sure what the solution is, but I know there are more efficient ways to cool the systems down. But greed has them doing it the fastest, easiest way.
Building as is at the moment is a HARD NO if you value your community. What she’s suggesting is just part of the solution.
@nancydaugherty159
April 5, 2026 at 5:56 am
What comes to mind is AI is for the lazy and talentless
@guppygrease9767
April 5, 2026 at 10:29 am
How much maga scam terrorists programming to be dragged into street and very publicly control alti delete, grok will be first. AI no need for speculated value which people’s use in pass it on! Data only as good as counterpart.
@robnee3313
April 5, 2026 at 11:37 am
Her talk is smart for the grid, however, data centers are a disaster to live near. They produce constant noise and thermal pollution.
@lanceharpham2792
April 5, 2026 at 4:45 pm
Another Ted Talk liar
@jeanettenorman7052
April 5, 2026 at 8:24 pm
All over rover – money and greed will win out every time.
@coffeelady4967
April 5, 2026 at 9:03 pm
Thanks President Trump. 🙁