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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by hunterpayne on Saturday June 06, 2026 @05:39PM (#48429265)
The power and water requirements of AI DCs narrative is entirely nonsense. It doesn't hold up to even a cursory analysis on the back of an envelope.

And medical advances of AI are from other ML algorithms, not LLMs. They use similar technology and can run in the same DCs, but they aren't the same and people don't really have the same opinions on them both.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by LogicFailsMe on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:02AM (#48434975)
IMO the power issue is legit: https://ieefa.org/resources/projected-data-center-growth-spu...

But sensing the free market pitchforks and torches, the pushback commenced shortly thereafter...

But you're right that this can be addressed in multiple ways such as pushing the locations to places where construction is cheap or building where it is made cheap to operate with on-site power generation.

What's your take on medical VLMs? That's pretty much an LLM with multiple classes of tokens. While nothing's FDA approved yet, Cognita CXR is listed as a breakthrough device and multiple companies providing conventional AI have both published research and signaled intent to submit for FDA approval.

https://mosaicclinical.ai/news/2026/03/mosaic-clinical-techn...

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