There are a growing list of reasons not to want to live near an AI data center.
Some of them emit constant screeching noises that are impossible to drown out. Others rely on massive diesel generators that spew smog into the community and greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere. If you get particularly unlucky, your electricity bill could also go up as a result of a new data center setting up shop in your neighborhood.
And, if a recent report by the colorfully-named Texas-based advocacy group Collapse Survival Institute is anything to go by, living near a data center could be a matter of life and death as well.
The report, which was put together by retired Air Force colonel Drew Miller, quotes former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who left his post at the AI company earlier this year. Coxon drew widespread media attention for arguing that there was a greater than ten percent chance of AI ending humanity — incendiary comments that prompted widespread fears of a catastrophic singularity-like event.
