Oh, so you are not opposed to government/military data centers just “commercial data centers?”
My next question is, are you opposed to purpose-built structures that house computers and computer servers involved in medical research, health care, civilian communications, education, commerce, and scientific research?
Would it be morally ok if I use the internet to order a vacuum tube for my CB radio?
You are drawing a distinction that does not exist. The military does not build all its own isolated server farms; the government leases secure, dedicated sections inside standard commercial data centers, like AWS GovCloud.
But those stable federal contracts are a drop in the bucket. The current explosion of construction is being driven by private corporations building massive infrastructure to run real-time advertising auctions, harvest consumer data, and fuel an AI speculation bubble.
Nobody is opposing hospitals, schools, or the existing infrastructure for healthcare and e-commerce, which runs perfectly fine on a fraction of the grid.
Your smug ‘vacuum tube’ routine attempting to paint me as a dinosaur is more of a comedy routine than valid criticism. If you actually knew anything about electronic hardware as I do, you would know that CB radios have been completely solid-state and transistor-based for the last fifty years.
Objecting to private corporations consuming an entire county's worth of water and electricity for corporate data harvesting does not mean someone is living in the past. It means they actually understand the physical and economic costs of this infrastructure, while you are still trying to defend it with science-fiction missile scenarios.
Unlike you, I actually understand this technology because I am a regular user of AI services. I use commercial products, run local Large Language Models myself, and use powerful virtual machines provided by cloud services. The specific tasks I run are not power-hungry mass surveillance applications, but they do give me a direct, hands-on reference point for how this computing power actually works. It is unfortunate that your beliefs have been entirely formed by corporate propaganda, but you simply do not have the technical background to realize how badly you have been bamboozled.