In this letter to the editor, the reader responds to the story, “Special Report: California’s AI Warning to Broadcasters.” Radio World welcomes letters to the editor on this or any story. Email [email protected].
Gregg Skall’s recent article touched on every possible legal problem AI has.
But what it didn’t touch on is the damage it will do to people and humanity, including:
1. Its huge demand for electricity. The cost of electricity will skyrocket for the common homeowner and radio stations. That will cause many other damaging problems for the average person’s electricity needs too numerous to enumerate here.
2. Global warming. The heat generated by a data center is unimaginable and will use unimaginable quantities of water to cool. How can we manage the heat generated without destroying the planet?
3. Mankind lives only on clean, healthful water and is essential to life.
It is precious and is in short supply and taken for granted. And its use to cool data centers — only to make the computers run faster — will add to the problems to providing healthy water to every city in this country for already stressed water resources to the detriment of mankind’s health and survivability. Problems again too numerous to mention here.
I just wanted to call attention to what I am hearing from the good stewards of the environment — the farmers who live in the counties around my home.
– Tony Coloff, Forest City, Iowa
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