dumnezero

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Don't use it.

Maintain or upgrade your skills.

Software will need immense fixing after this AI fuckery. Either they pay for fixes or new software, or the entire sector shrinks.

Pick a few strong arguments, don't go with a sack.

Use news (yes, anecdotal) too. Some places have already been fucked over.

Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers

The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925002788

Data Centers Are So Power Hungry That Cow Manure Fuel Is Now on the Table https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/data-centers-are-so-power-hungry-that-cow-manure-fuel-is-now-on-the-table/

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole https://theconversation.com/5-ways-data-centers-endanger-their-local-communities-and-the-country-as-a-whole-282348

https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-entire-nations/

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/extracting-profits-from-the-public-how-utility-ratepayers-are-paying-for-big-techs-power/

Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech’s Power – Environmental and Energy Law Program https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/the-futile-future-of-the-gigawatt-datacenter-by-nicholas-weaver/

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/ai-cooling-demands-push-data-centers-into-deep-water

https://cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Challenging-Waters

Try to solve the problem/challenge without it. When you start feeling that hard part, that difficulty, make a note of it and dig into that and search for what knowledge you're missing, some course, some chapter. Then repeat.

You have to do recovery work. In the past, students used to be "held back" to repeat courses or entire years. That was a good thing, they had to try again to get it right. Now, the educational system is afraid of doing such things, and it's even afraid of giving failing grades, which means that you're not getting that necessary feedback. So it's on you now to give yourself the negative feedback, to evaluate yourself, and to try again. It sucks, I know.