The story is the city contracted them, they put up cameras. The city cancelled the contract, they took the cameras down. Then they up cameras again. Without any contracts. Who is paying them?
No company ever does anything for free. Without a city contract, why would they ever work/provide services?
Like it’s not about operating costs. Why would a for-profit corporation ever work without being paid to do it…?
So your theory is they are being paid by private companies to put up cameras in public spaces? That are not owned by those private companies?
What…? If the city isn’t paying them to operate, who is?
Gulf of Trump
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What you’re saying is lemmy.ml and others like it are in cahoots with the Epstein class…?
This is a ridiculous idea that no serious journalist abides by. Journalism is inherently political and biased. Just choosing WHAT to report on, when and how prominently, it’s already political. And believe it or not, humans aren’t really capable of ignoring their biases when producing any kind of writing. Even if you try very hard, you won’t see where you’re biased, that’s kind of the nature of biases.
What journalists should do is always be upfront about where they are coming from and where they stand. To not hide behind “neutrality” and “objectivity”. That really doesn’t exist and only makes readers misinformed as they believe the biased reporting of a journalist is objective reality.
It’s hilarious that this is not necessary at all. There are many data centers that use fully renewable energy, recycle 99% of their water etc. They are a bit more expensive to build. Like making them fully “green” would be a tiny portion of the budget (which obviously mostly goes to ungodlily expensive memory and chips).
Like if the US was a minimally serious country, it would have regulations prohibiting this kind of stuff cause the alternative is just a bit more expensive and is already super feasible and easy to do. There are whole companies that their entire business is building green renewable data centers.
These US AI guys are just ghouls and I suspect they actually want to destroy the world? Idk.
Like there is NO reason other than evilness to not pollute the soil and groundwater around them, to not recycle the water used for cooling, to not use wind turbines and solar panels and batteries…. Literally NO reason.