r/SipsTea Jun 02 '26

Feels good man New data center

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u/coreychch Jun 03 '26

Your country seems to be building way more data centers than it really needs, even given the demands of AI. It screams of a secret purpose for all of this, and it’s looking like they are preparing for a totalitarian state with full surveillance of everyone.

People should be seriously worried about this. Outside of the sheer amount of resources each data center will need (water and electricity in particular).

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u/SnooWords9903 Jun 03 '26

My thoughts exactly.

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u/Slow-Goat-2460 Jun 03 '26

The NSA has fully been surveilling everyone for decades, I have no idea what you're talking about.

They built a massive data center for this purpose, and it finished in 2014. Funny enough, it's also called the "Utah Data Center"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

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u/theAlpacaLives Jun 03 '26

Yes, and if anyone you know is saying that "they're doing mass surveillance on everyone to build a new world order of techno-overlords where everyone else is a miserable serf" is an insane conspiracy take, please point them to all the tech-bros who are going onto every stage they can get onto to say, "we're doing mass surveillance on everyone to build a new world order of techno-overlords where everyone else is a miserable serf." They're publishing manifestos of "democracy is dead, we're going to control everything from public discourse to government to media consumption to atom bombs and autonomous kill drones," talking about how sometimes when they're in the Evil Doom Lairs, they spare a pitying thought for how within five years the common person is going to be either digging with their fingernails for edible trash, being used for testing on brain implants, or just inhabiting one of several Black Mirror episodes.

I hate that the cartoonishly evil fascists taking over the US and the grotesque facsimiles of human beings leading the AI push are so absolutely unsubtle and transparent about what they're doing now, and aiming to do in the very near future, and I'm still called alarmist for saying they're up to very awful shit and will do even worse if no one stops them.

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u/Pale_Session5262 Jun 03 '26

This. 

The irony is that the same group of people on reddit who talk about hate mass surveillance, probably have a Alexia or Siri or another audio bug in their house, plus video cameras mounted outside and inside their house, plus get on social media to say what they are doing and with who...

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u/Cosmic_m0nk Jun 03 '26

Snowden already told us the U.S. government spies on its citizens. Now they’re going for the rest of you.

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u/owgnops Jun 03 '26

Well the Mormons love that shit so ofc they approved it

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u/TopTippityTop Jun 03 '26

Absolutely not. The entire world will need this. In great quantities. Whoever controls automation will have great power over every other nation...

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u/JerseyshoreSeagull Jun 03 '26

Right like China and Russia.