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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Babylon Bee: 8 Scary Facts about Data Centers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>AI uses a lot of power, and it needs massive data centers to support it. That's why, despite data centers having existed for decades, people are suddenly running for the hills. But do they have a reason to be afraid? You be the judge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Here are the scariest facts about data centers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><hr size=0 width="100%" align=center></span></div><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Data centers are the ugliest buildings on earth:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Ancient Greeks never built utilitarian buildings.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>They're almost as bad as nuclear power plants: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And 100 times more deadly.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>They drink up one whole ocean per ChatGPT query:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> We might need the oceans at some point in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>They use so much power that everyone nearby is forced to become Amish:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> And if you're Amish, you won't be allowed to watch <i>Dune: Part Three</i>. Horrifying.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dangerous levels of EMF and radiation can affect human health:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Methuselah lived to the age of 969 when there were no data centers around. You think that's just a coincidence?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Powering a single data center requires the opening of a Hellmouth:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Is that what we really need? More Hellmouths?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Data centers are the last step before the vast farms filled with crops of human beings to feed them:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> You will now be food for the machines.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>There's one behind you right now:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Run! Run for your lives!<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol></span><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><hr size=0 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Are you frightened? Not nearly frightened enough. What else is scary about data centers? Post your most terrifying facts please.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>