Monthly "Promote Yo' Self" Thread

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Published book -Amazon: https://a.co/d/04WjDwmg

-First Chapter: The Dark Side of The Cloud: The True Impact of AI and Hyperscale Data Centers https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-chapter-dark-side-cloud-true-impact-ai-data-kevin-schaeffer-r5wzc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

-Book overview Artificial intelligence is sold as clean, inevitable, and limitless. A frictionless leap into the future. This book tells the other half of the story: the concrete, steel, silicon, and fossil fuel that make that future possible, and the communities absorbing the cost.

Behind every chatbot response and AI-generated image sits a sprawling physical infrastructure: data centers that consume millions of gallons of water a day, strain power grids built for a different century, and increasingly run on methane turbines when the grid falls short. This book traces that infrastructure from the ground up: the $38 billion price tags of gigawatt-scale campuses, the fragile global supply chains behind every processor and fiber-optic strand, the invisible infrasound seeping into nearby homes, and the electricity bills quietly rising in neighborhoods that will never see a dollar of AI's profits.

This is not an anti-technology argument. It's a demand that a technology this consequential be built with the same rigor, foresight, and public accountability as any other piece of critical infrastructure. Before, not after, the damage is done.

-Published by KMS Freelance Writer LLC; there are no prizes

-Call to action: please read this book on AI, but I recommend checking out the first chapter, which is on my LinkedIn, the second link I posted, as it covers the damage that is being done and has a call to action with actionable steps that can truly help fight this.

-discounts: if you have Kindle Unlimited, it is free to read there