As AI creeps into schools, businesses, and the daily lives of citizens, the consequences of this idolatry are imminent. Right now, AI just looks like silly Facebook cat videos and essays written in 10 seconds, but it is deeper and more corrosive than that.
AI is taking more than it gives:
AI is actively taking jobs away from Americans. It is stripping us of agricultural land and land that could be used for housing or for protecting/preserving wildlife. Our casual use of generative AI like ChatGPT, Sora, and Gemini is depriving us of our perfectly good drinking water for communities, farmland, and cattle. Communities are already being affected by low water pressure and damaged water quality in towns where data centers are located. Idaho depends on farms and cattle to function and provide for our country. We are already seeing a decline in farms and farmers in recent decades due to money, regulations, and droughts. AI data centers are ONLY adding to this problem. Data centers are currently being built and designed to sit above ground on good land, and large amounts of it. Currently, there is a data center approved for construction in Utah that would be 40,000 acres of private land. The entire community recently held a meeting in Box Elder County and voted to oppose the data center by a majority. Despite massive backlash, the commission voted to approve the project. This also drives up costs in the local community at a time where inflation and the cost of living couldn’t be worse.
Land ownership has been the backbone of this country since its beginning of its inception. Owning land in America is the American dream. Data centers are being weaponised on this property under the guise that people can do whatever they want on their property, completely neglecting the consequences it has on the surrounding area. The dramatic scene in Box Elder County on May 4th paints a broader picture of the state of the country. When the voters no longer have a voice, we no longer have a democracy. This data center will be about 300 miles away from Boise, Idaho. The data center will affect more than just the residents, but people from states all around it. The water rights purchased for this project could provide for around 20,000 Utah residents. Instead, it is feeding the ever-growing need for funny cat videos and cartoon profile pictures.
AI is making us unintelligent and powerless:
Using AI tools for simple things like a Google search, fun questions, or extra opinions are avenues to slowly losing critical thinking skills that educators and parents have worked tirelessly to nurture. When we stop asking ourselves critical questions and solely rely on fast technology, we are stunting the growth of minds that are far more capable than the current AI technology we have. Recent studies suggest that AI is smoothing our brains and lowering our ability to remember information quickly. When we don’t have to reach further into the mind to retrieve information, we are losing the neuropathways our brains have worked hard to create. This also stunts neuroplasticity in the brain. A research Scientist at Harvard explains that
“I aim to help students consider the wealth of research on how human minds work so that they can make the best use of their particular mind (with its normative and non-normative characteristics). Then I ask them to compare to AI to think carefully about when and how they decide to use each. I hope it leads them to a fuller appreciation for their incredible minds and abilities!” Tina Grotzer, Staff Researcher at Harvard University
Senior Lecturer Fawwaz Habbal at Harvard University states:
“While AI excels in data processing and statistics, it lacks the ability to create truly innovative and creative solutions; machines calculate and they do not have human experiences.”
Dan Levy at Harvard said this,
“If a student uses AI to do the work for them, rather than to do the work with them, there’s not going to be much learning. No learning occurs unless the brain is actively engaged in making meaning and sense of what you’re trying to learn, and this is not going to occur if you just ask ChatGPT, “Give me the answer to the question that the instructor is asking.””
These experts all had reasons they support the use of some AI tools, especially for advanced algebraic equations, high-powered computing, and reasonable questions that are not easily answered. If AI is being used, it needs to be for something good, purposeful, and world-changing. The problem is, big AI innovators are not focusing on ways AI can make the world better, but on the profit it can make them. Money has been dividing the AI advancement community, further proving the corruption in its system.
We cannot fully fathom the result of creating such high-performing AI programs and huge data centers. We have not done it before, and we cannot say for sure what will and won’t happen. The more we mess with this technology expansion, the riskier it gets for everyone. Right now, we are welcoming an unknown intelligent technology that one day we will lose control of. We are quite literally handing our autonomy and power over to AI, all for the spirit of advancement and possible innovation. And we are letting it drain us of good drinking water.
AI is unbiblical:
Building this technology and designing it from the human brain, in my opinion, is unbiblical. From my perspective, it only seems like humans want to have the power of God by making their own version of “life”. It is the first sin of humankind- doubting God and taking things into our own hands. Just like in the Garden of Eden when Eve and Adam ate the fruit God commanded against, we are biting into a fruit God never intended for us to have. Our reliance on AI is gross and spiritually lazy.
It makes me cringe when I learn about the origin of AI. The creators started by making it specifically to generate outcomes based on how the human brain computes information. The Turing Machine that every computer has been created from was made paralleling the way our neurotransmitters pass information across the brain. This has now morphed into new AI technology capabilities. We are not God; we do not get to create life as He does. We cannot properly replicate the human brain without huge consequences. We get to play a part in creating children, but AI takes it to a level I would compare to the Tower of Babel. They have created an intelligent being in their own image.
I can also see how easily AI could be used as a distraction and deception during the end times. Jesus will come on the clouds (Revelation 1:7). I worry that the use of AI will become so advanced that an antichrist spirit could use the technology to sway millions of people into believing a false god as Jesus appears. Scripture says that even the elect will be deceived if possible (Matthew 24:24). When many Christians already rely on AI to guide them, generate images, and answer prompts for them, I am concerned that they will not have the spiritual eyes to see the truth when it is in front of them. AI becomes more advanced every day as we get smarter and feed it new data to advance its technologies.
Alternate Data Centers:
What saddens me the most is that above-ground, fresh-water-cooling data centers are not the only option. Microsoft had successfully created a data center below the ocean, but found that underwater noise actually disrupted the data center more aggressively than originally thought. These centers pose possible threats to marine life and are difficult to maintain. Recently, new developments have been made in this technology, specifically by the company Panthalassa. Panthalassa is working on developing floating nodes that will use ocean waves to generate electricity and the cold ocean temperatures to cool the systems when in use. Right now, I don’t support the creation of any AI data centers, but I would prefer that the ones being created are done in a way that does not harm nature, wildlife, water, and our local communities.
CEO’s and AI innovators are doing just about anything to get these data centers made. That dedication is something I would compare to worship. Spending tens of billions of dollars for thousand-acre data centers is something I never could have fathomed five years ago. What is scary about this is that the people with the money are less likely to be stopped, even with loud public backlash. Our world relies on systems of greed and envy that even AI cannot suffice, and voices may not stop. People who do not rely on the love and forgiveness of Jesus do not have the moral compass needed to care enough about the outcome of worshipping this new technology.
If billionaires are willing to spend their money on data centers, my question is, why hasn’t that money gone towards ending world hunger instead? Why has this money been made available for something so incredibly unnecessary when we have problems being added to our plates from the very thing they are trying to fund? I am afraid we all know the answer to that question. Greed.
Conclusion:
We are giving too much power to an unknown technology and wasting our resources and brainpower while we use it. AI uses up our water, land, and money. It is being programmed to replace working people at their jobs. It takes more than it gives; it was made with unclear intentions beyond creating false intelligence in the image of mankind. It makes us more mentally dull and allows us to be lazier every time we use it, rather than using our own creativity. It is currently being made for profit instead of people, and it spreads misinformation. Its advanced techniques are being used for hacking sensitive personal data, leaving us more at risk than ever before. It takes up massive amounts of space, which strips us of land that could be used for housing, livestock, farmland, preservation, recreation, or, quite literally, anything more useful than AI prompts. AI needs to be heavily regulated and, in many cases, banned. The use of AI has consequences beyond our comprehension and needs to be treated as such.
If we continue to worship the creation and use of AI, it will destroy us, our land, and our mental capacity. If we refuse to fight it, we must be aware that the consequences might be irreversible.
If you want AI data centers out of Idaho, sign this petition here:
https://www.change.org/ai-less-idaho
Sources Cited
“AI data centers, already harmful, appear to be creating their own microclimates”. Client Challenge, www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ai-data-center-microclimates-22236756.php. Accessed 14 May 2026.
“AI Data Centers May Soon Ride Ocean Waves”. Cyberguy, cyberguy.com/ai/ai-data-centers-ride-ocean-waves/. Accessed 14 May 2026.
Leiainthefield. “Hundreds of Utahns File to Block Kevin O’Leary’s Proposed Massive Data Center Campus over Water Concerns.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 May 2026, www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/01/utahns-send-state-deluge-concerns/. Accessed 14 May 2026.
Mineo, Liz. “Is AI Dulling Our Minds?” Harvard Gazette, 13 Nov. 2025, news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/is-ai-dulling-our-minds/. Accessed 14 May 2026.
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