# An Opinionated Critique of AI's Environmental, Social, and Infrastructure Impacts

DevFeed: [An Opinionated Critique of AI's Environmental, Social, and Infrastructure Impacts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe-36560.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/>)

Published: 2026-05-05T15:09:12Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/large-language-models.md>), [data centers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-centers.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-data-centers.md>), [climate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/climate.md>), [co2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/co2.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-centers.md>), [education](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/education.md>), [energy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/energy.md>), [hiring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hiring.md>), [language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-models.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models.md>), [water](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/water.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that society is being asked to accept damaging conditions as normal, focusing on climate change, AI data centers' resource use, geopolitical crises, and dependence on US cloud infrastructure. It is especially critical of AI's effects on hiring and education, and of deploying unproven large language model output in production services.

## Source excerpt

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carrol by John Tenniel To stay sane, we have to accept that our climate is going completely haywire, but that it is ok to mostly ignore that since saving ourselves is apparently not cost-effective.