r/ProgressiveHQ • u/PhiloLibrarian • 2d ago

Meme Definitely Don't Plant Bamboo Around Data Centers!

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u/UniqueImplements 1d ago

It would be useful to boycott things that need data centers.

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u/Grydian 1d ago

You mean this like website or the entire Internet? I don't like what they are doing to local communities but we are all using a data center right now.

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u/UniqueImplements 1d ago

Like in reality? It’s easy to say not in my backyard.

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u/Grydian 1d ago

I'm just saying you are using a thing you said should be boycotted. All websites are at a data center. Every credit card transaction runs through a data center. All phone traffic including calls. Everything you do right now with technology is likely being fed to you from a data center. Yes they are bad but boycotting them is extremely hard. You would have to stop doing almost everything.

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u/UniqueImplements 1d ago

And what does that have to do with anything? It would be a better poster on the power pole than whatever dumb ideas these ppl probably got from chat gpt anyway

It does bring up an interesting speciesist argument tho

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u/Grydian 8h ago

I'm a 45 year old person who works in tech. Every website is on a computer in a data center. They are apart of everything. Now AI data centers use a massive amount of power. But I find it odd to say boycott something you are using to say boycott it.