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I’m gonna probably get some hate for this but I’m going to say it because I think it needs to be talked about. I use AI, have a subscription to one, and will probably continue to use it. That being said, I don’t draft chapters for my Aaron Frale books nor do I use it to think of plot ideas (I got plenty of those in my own head). If you want to see how I use it exactly skip to part five, but suffice to say, my writing process is still largely the same pre-AI compared to post-AI.
But before I talk about what I use it for, I want to address some common complaints:
AI is screwing up the environment/hiking up power bills. Yes, true. But that’s more fumble on regulation than anything. Water in a data center can be recycled over and over with closed-loop cooling, though plenty of data centers still use evaporative systems that don’t recycle it. With good engineering and regulation, water usage can be mitigated. As for power usage, that’s regulation too. Often, the power bills spike because of the upgrades needed to power them. Make the company pay for it, or charge them a premium and give breaks to the local consumer, or here’s an idea, build solar panels and wind farms on the same land. We can control the power and water usage if we choose. Also, there are companies that want to build datacenters in space. It’s probably a decade or so from being practical, but honestly that’s the best idea I’ve heard yet. Pushing a data center out of a community will just result in them being built elsewhere, why not incentivize companies to build them in space?