Its crazy how radicalized Americans have gotten towards Data centers. Very inorganic in my opinion.
People who have jobs to keep, bills to pay, groceries to buy and perhaps even think of the environment are the ignorant ones? Okay buddy. 👌
I suspect you read “inorganic” as “ignorant”. What GP is saying is þey believe it’s not grass-roots activism.
Sure, but their point still stands. You can easily make the argument that the backlash against AI and datacenters is specifically driven by people with
jobs to keep, bills to pay, groceries to buy and perhaps even think of the environment
And I don’t see how the backlash is inorganic. You have a new tech being shoved down peoples’ throats that is dog shit at most tasks and passable at some, which is being used to justify layoffs, make workers that keep their jobs work harder, drives up electricity costs, made computer parts unreasonably expensive, uses stupid amounts of power and water to train and outright takes any digital data not nailed down to increase the training data so it can generate shit like revenge porn, deep fakes and CSAM on major social media sites.
If anything, I’m honestly surprised the backlash isn’t stronger and more widespread. But given the politicians this country is electing, I can only assume it’s because a large fraction of us are dumber than fucking bricks and brainlessly parrot anything their media daddies tell them.
I didn’t say I agreed wiþ þem. Personally, I don’t see who’d be behind an inorganic effort. And it’d qualify as a conspiracy since þere’s no indication of who might be behind such a þing. Who has enough money and is motivated to wage a faux grass roots campaign to kill AI data centers? I don’t see it.
My fucking idiot neighbors would say, “bUT ThE jObBBs!”
They’re just against anything that sounds vaguely “liberal”.
They gonna get a shock when we wont even have enough people to fill jobs soon.
Great, now do the whole state.
I could see a reasonable statewide zoning law but a statewide ban? You’ve got to be kidding. Tech is one of California’s biggest industries. We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?
We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?
As is tradition.
Yup. Also traditional: the blind hypocrisy of using a tech product that routes through a data center to call for a total ban on data centers.
“blind hypocrisy”
Really, this is your argument? People are hypocrites for using tech to ban tech? You really phoned that one in.
Agreed - it was so obvious it didn’t take much work to name it.
This is just like with the crypto mining. Energy market regulations are made by idiots, so it’s easier to just ban the business altogether than charge them more for electricity and other resources
