It is notjust software.

New AI facilities require over 100 megawatts worth of electricity to operate - and that's on the low end of the spectrum. Newer facilities can require up to as much as 1 Gigawatt, roughly the same power demand as 1,000,000 homes. Electricity prices have spiked by nearly 7% since 2025, and the demand doesn't stop.

The cooling systems found in these facilities use up to 5 million gallons of water a day - The equivalent of 50,000 people. This water then either leaves the facility as waste water oir steam, rarely returning to the environment in which it was taken from.

This is all being done without the consent of the people who live in these communities. This is our water, our power, and our land. Most of us are never even consulted, compensated, or informed.

Efficiency can improve while total consumption still rises because the system grows faster.

A national percentage can hide severe effects where facilities cluster.

Communities need facility-level disclosure instead of promises they cannot verify.

A face can be compared against enormous image repositories in seconds. This makes it easy to track exactly everywhere an individual has been and what they'll likely do next. This isn't meant to keep us safe, it's meant to strip away our privacy - a violation of our freedom.

Exceptional systems can quietly become ordinary infrastructure. Stores, intersections, and public spaces may operate as hubs for facial recognition, the ata collected sent to private corporations without consent.

People cannot meaningfully exist if every moved is watched. It takes away a fundamental part of being human, and if our government doesn't have the trust us to let us operate on our own, what makes us think we can trust them.

Creative work can be ingested at scale and returned as a competing product. Millions of books are being destroyed as AI systems are trained on their content at scale, the companies doing so ridding humanity of the works that built our culture.

Entry-level tasks may disappear before workers gain experience, forcing millions out of the labor market. If creativity is replaced by machine, it sets a precedent for everything else. Are our morals, ethics, and humanity also going to be replaced by machine?

A net increase in jobs does not erase individual displacement. The International Labour Organization’s 2025 index found one in four jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to generative AI, with transformation more likely than complete replacement.

The harm begins when a victim must prove reality. If AI media is indestinguishable from real media, how do we trust which is which? If a victim cannot prove reality, can the justice system really do it's job?

A seemingly ordinary photograph can become a permanent source of abuse. Fake and and misleading media can be used to harass, threaten, and create confusion among people. This causes communities to lose trust in eachother, becoming disorganized and fighting the real problem.

As fabrication improves, authentic evidence becomes easier to dismiss. With the right means, a company can press charges against a person all with a short prompt. The judicial system would be reduced to simple money wars, and how are we supposed to fight that?

Calling creative work data can erase the human authorship inside it. It dehumanizes the work, strips it of it's core values, and reduces it down to simple numbers in a complex spreadsheet.

Training records are often difficult for the public to inspect. If trained enough, the system essentially becomes one of us. What do we do if the app on our phones knows more about being a human than I do?

Infrastructure, models, distribution, and political access can concentrate together all into one. Are culture is mashed together into one small crock pot, losing it's value and meaning. Culture is meant to be sacred, but how do we protect our roots if a machine can control it all?