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    1. Trawetser on

      Do you know where this post lives? Do you know where that article lives?

      A data center.

    2. commandrix on

      Now watch the businesses that want this try to reframe it with the usual „They just don’t want this good thing in their backyards“ argument. Ignoring the fact that there might actually be some good reasons they don’t want this in their areas and it’s not because they’re fekkin‘ ugly.

    3. soberpenguin on

      Fossil fuel industry is pushing AI and data centers to increase demand for their products and use the demand as rationale for keeping existing fossil fuel power plants running.

    4. Squibbles01 on

      Good. Fuck them. The only thing AI is used for is theft and misinformation.

    6. notPabst404 on

      About time. This AI bullshit is causing residential electric bills to skyrocket. People need to push back. Affordability, not corporate profit, needs to be the priority.

    7. Tazling on

      Counting down to the first use of “Luddite” to dismiss people’s valid concerns.. 10, 9, 8, 7…

    10. MisterForkbeard on

      Sure. A lot of people really don’t like AI, for both good and bad reasons. But notably:

      1. Datacenters consume a *lot* of local resources. Electricity and/or water bills can spike enormously
      2. AI itself is often kind of shitty and unreliable AND being shoehorned into a lot of things
      3. AI drives up prices directly and indirectly on a lot of goods
      4. AI is being blamed for a *lot* of job losses

      For sure, people are getting angry about it and that’s in addition to normal NIMBYism.

    11. moloch_slayer on

      Plot twist: The real rebellion isn’t against the data centers. It’s against politicians who approved them without understanding that cooling a million GPUs requires roughly the same amount of water as a small city.

      We’re literally at a point where AI training is competing with human drinking water, and somehow this wasn’t part of the environmental impact assessment.

      Next up: „Why is my electricity bill higher?“ meets „Why is there a data center the size of 6 Walmarts next to my neighborhood?“

      Turns out NIMBYism hits different when it’s not just about traffic – it’s about whether you can take a shower without worrying if the local AI is learning to write poetry about your water pressure.

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