4. Pledge personally to avoid use of AI in the Internet world.   The data centers are expanding in service to AI. Every time we search the Internet utilizing AI, use Chatgpt, etc, there is an electricity, water, and pollution cost. Those who provide Data Centers are looking for the easiest places to build, which are rural, poor areas.  If we don’t want Data Centers here, it seems like we shouldn’t want them anywhere…

• Install a non-AI browser, like DuckDuckGo.  Within minutes of starting to use it, I felt myself breathe easier without having to wade through all the automatic AI slop that comes up first.  https://noai.duckduckgo.com/   They also have an extension for Microsoft browser.  There are other non-AI browser’s, that’s just the one I settled on.
• Avoid using AI to do things that human brains and bodies can do, such as writing, art, graphic design, and thinking.  If we could be paying a human to do it, or if we can do it ourselves, that’s a hint.
• Read about the issues with AI’s rise within the Internet.  We truly need to look at how much AI is being pushed onto us with every click on a screen.    Stop AI 14 Steps to turn off AI  and 7 Ways to Minimise Generative AI in Your Life & why this matters – Allyson Shaw, Author of Ashes and Stones     

5. Learn more about the environmental impacts of Data Centers. 

• Great place to start is with Erin Brockovich’s website. Yes, that Erin Brockovich!  Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness & Issue Map

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