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Professor warns data centre risks are being missed by mainstream media

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Auckland University Professor Alex Sims says many of the issues surrounding AI data centres are already publicly available, but have received little mainstream attention.

“If you’re only watching the 6 o’clock news, of course you’re not going to hear any of this,” Sims told RCR, saying mainstream media has only recently begun covering some of the concerns. In the interview, Sims raised concerns about e-waste, rising computer costs, electricity demand and the enormous computing power behind hyperscale data centres.



She also discussed digital ID and what some describe as a future “control grid”. Listen or watch RCR’s interview with Prof Sims.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. The same race of people who owns the media owns the “data” centers.

    Ah, and they own most politicians as well.

    Most people stop believing in the MSM, so they created “fact checkers”. People then realised those were also fake, so they created “alternative media’. But people figured them out as well, so they created “AI”. Then…

  2. Lamestream media have ignored the most important things people need to know for decades this is nothing new. We knew during covid that the vaccines were not vaccines but an experimental gene therapy and were NOT safe and effective before they were even released in this country because of some news and medical / scientific information from around the world but, for some reason all the so called “best” journalists in this country had absolutely no knowledge of this. mainstream media is dead it just has not realized this yet. This just goes to prove why sites like DTNZ are so important.

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