Episode 811: The Inconvenient Truth About Data Centers

Now, this podcast started as the result of a Google search that I did on AI because I heard a rumor that I was watching some YouTube video and there was an assertion that the number of child brides in the world is increasing because of climate change.

I've spent much of my life working in Muslim areas, traveling in Muslim nations.

And I know for a fact that child brides are not the result of climate change.

It is the result of cultural sometimes, but mainly religious beliefs, mainly from Islam.

And that is the inconvenient truth.

People don't want to acknowledge that Muhammad married little girls.

Muhammad's favorite wife was Aisha, who was six years old when he married her, and he was over 50.

So this is a practice.

Now, if you are a follower of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad is the gold standard.

So you can't expect religious followers to have a higher moral standard than the person that they're following.

So the fact that Muhammad was a robber, a murderer, a killer, a slave owner, and a pedophile, is something that continues to be practiced by those that adhere to Islam.

This is the complete opposite of Jesus, and this is something that people don't like to hear.

In fact, if this video goes onto YouTube, I would not put it past YouTube to take it down.

But that's who Muhammad was historically.

And so I thought that that can't be.

So I did a quick search and I pulled it up on my phone really quick.

I did an AI search using Google AI.

And my question was this.

I'm going to read the question directly.

Is climate change responsible for child brides? And the answer was yes.

The climate crisis increases the incidence of early and forced marriages through several interconnected economic and social pathways.

Could have just stopped it, yes.

And then it goes through all of the, so it goes through one, two, three, four.

So it gives four reasons why climate change is responsible for child brides.

Now, the reason why I have to bring this up is because AI is increasingly becoming a part of our lives, whether you like it or not.