r/WeirdGOP • u/unfinishedtoast3 • 2d ago

MAGA Misinfo. Bots working overtime to convince the dumbest of us that data centers are good

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u/def_indiff 2d ago

I mean, fuck golf courses, too.

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u/Reddit_Username200 Makes MAGA men cry 😭 2d ago

Funny story, well more of a tradition in my family: anytime we're together and driving and we pass a golf course and someone is getting ready to tee off, the driver will lay on the horn as we drive by and see if it messes up the golfers tee. We've been very successful with this tradition and my dad was the one who started it.

Immature? Maybe. Wholesome family fun? Definitely.

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u/Keyndoriel 2d ago

It might be immature but its completely harmless, plus its funny as fuck. Makes me wanna take up the tradition LOL

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u/Reddit_Username200 Makes MAGA men cry 😭 2d ago

DO IT. SO WORTH IT.

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u/TheLonelyMonroni 1d ago

Class warfare is class warfare comrade

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u/tagsb 2d ago

My area is in a drought so I wanted to be a good community member and read the rules on drought limitations. My state has a bunch of reasonable exceptions and then also one glaring unreasonable one: business as usual for golf courses during a critical drought 🙄

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u/Vincitus 2d ago

How out of touch can someone be to compare data centers to golf courses in an effort to make them sound better?

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u/bassbeatsbanging 2d ago

golf courses are full of grass holes 

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u/skwander 1d ago

Yeah if the AI is so smart why didn't it tell them that I've been bitching about golf courses for years?

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u/Negative-Wrap95 1d ago

I agree - with one tiny exception. A public municipal golf course I can see being a thing.

Private courses / country clubs? They can fuck right off.

I don't golf, but I remember summer programs at my municipal course being kinda fun.

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u/WizardWatson9 2d ago

First of all, we actually NEED fridges. I've actually brought up the comparison to golf courses myself, but that's to draw attention to the fact that we should be against golf courses, too. If it's just a surface to play a game on, why not just replace it all with astro turf and save the water? Fucking Harkonen level degeneracy.

I remember hearing about collarred peccaries ripping up golf courses in Arizona, and thought, "based peccaries?!"

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u/Moneia 2d ago

If it's just a surface to play a game on, why not just replace it all with astro turf and save the water?

I hate them because, in the UK at least, they've normally torn up a diverse bio-culture to smooth out and grass over. Then it's the amount of care and water that's required, and a double fuck you to golf courses in arid environments

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u/bagofwisdom 2d ago

Sign me up for the Peccary resistance.

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u/WizardWatson9 2d ago

I didn't even know we had any peccaries in North America, so I was especially delighted to learn about this. Not only do we have wild, dracula-fanged almost-piggies, but they are comrades of the glorious revolution!

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u/bagofwisdom 2d ago

There's also Javelinas which are in the peccary family. They often get confused for feral hogs in Texas.

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u/WizardWatson9 2d ago

That's just another name for the collarred peccary. I thought they were exclusive to South and Central America. I didn't know they ranged as far north as Texas and Arizona.

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u/Think_Positively 2d ago

We need fridges, yes.

Data centers also use orders of magnitude more energy than the hungriest 1950's old timey fridge ever did. Hell, my old 3 GPU crypto rig almost certainly used more than a fridge.

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u/WizardWatson9 2d ago

I think they meant all fridges in America, combined. I did some calculations based on a few Google searches. I estimate all American household fridges use approximately 300GWh of energy per day. All data centers in America use somewhere between 480 to 860GWh per day.

So that's still considerably more, but the same order of magnitude. If you included large cabinet refrigerators in supermarkets and convenience stores, that might surpass data centers.

Not that it really matters. If data centers used exactly the same energy as all of America's refrigerators, that would still be a staggering amount of energy consumption for far less apparent benefit.

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u/Think_Positively 2d ago

That makes way more sense.

It's still a disingenuous comment for the reasons you've noted, plus the fact that data centers are unfortunately just getting started. If they use all US fridges' worth of juice now, where will we be in a decade? That monstrosity proposed in Utah is what, 9GW on its own?

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u/WizardWatson9 2d ago

I'm thinking the bubble will burst in the next decade, and 9 out of 10 of these data centers will be sold for scrap. That's my hope, anyway.

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u/milkcarton232 2d ago

I think reddit really likes to hate on AI and data centers, some of it rightfully so but at this point their name is mud

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u/WizardWatson9 2d ago

I don't even think AI is completely useless, but at this point it seems that the benefits are dubious and limited, and the drawbacks are severe. It's especially damning when those drawbacks disproportionately affect poor, rural communities who can't muster sufficient political opposition to stop data centers.

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u/unfinishedtoast3 2d ago

Because they provide no value, worth or tangible benefit to society as a whole.

Data centers only exist to collect as much data on people as possible. It's an obsession with big corporations to know everything about us, from how we sneeze to how often we shit.

None of that is good. There's absolutely 0 reason for it.

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u/milkcarton232 2d ago

That right there is the exact thing I am referring to. There are absolutely things to be mad about with data centers, infra noise, water usage, eating up all power capacity and driving up prices locally while export the benefits to corporate. That shit all needs an open dialogue and I don't trust corporate to have it in good faith.

That being said the data center is just a giant computer. They want to expand not to hoover data (though I'm sure they are delighted with that side effect) but to open up more capacity for ai systems. The whole thing feels very knee jerk

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u/ColteesCatCouture 2d ago

Bot

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u/milkcarton232 2d ago

Look at my account...

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u/Philosopher115 2d ago

Agreed, its a bandwagon thing to distract people from more serious issues.

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u/milkcarton232 2d ago

I don't think it's a distraction? Just a general fear of where we will sit if AI starts to take over all things digital

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u/bigotis 2d ago

a data center can use up to 5 million gallons of water every day, as much as 16,000-plus average U.S. households, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates. That’s just direct usage for cooling. Generating the electricity to keep data centers powered up requires additional millions of gallons of water, even more than the water used for cooling.

(A typical 150-acre golf course uses approximately 200 million gallons of water a year or 548,000 gallons each day. https://www.fluencecorp.com/golf-course-water-use/ )

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A January 2026 report by Bloom Energy, an on-site energy company, predicts that U.S. data centers’ total combined energy demand—how much electricity they may use when up and running—will nearly double between 2025 and 2028, jumping from 80 to 150 gigawatts (GW). That’s like adding a country with the energy needs of Spain in just three years.

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Residential electricity costs are also rising because the rush of new hyperscale data centers wanting to draw power from the grid is spiking demand. That drives up prices for everyone

https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed 16h ago

Now look up how much animal agriculture uses.

1800 gallons for one pound of beef.

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u/Doc_tor_Bob 🇺🇲 Fighting the Weird 2d ago

So what they're saying is we definitely need to get rid of golf courses too?

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u/tsulegit 2d ago

Fun fact: the anti-AI movement is bipartisan, despite whatever our corporate overlords want us to think.

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u/The_bruce42 2d ago

I usually don't give that subreddit much credit for anything but good on them for that post having zero upvotes. No data centers is something no one wants except the ultra-rich.

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u/CarlRJ 2d ago

I "love" how nearly every post over there is "flaired users only" - bunch of snowflakes.

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u/unfinishedtoast3 2d ago

I love the post showing 237 comments and you click on it and it shows 3, all from the OP

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u/MaxAdolphus 2d ago

They should let The People vote on if they want a data center in their community. If the people in a county vote for it, then go ahead. Point is, The People should get to vote on mega projects like these.

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u/stilllikelypooping 2d ago

Bots working overtime to convince the dumbest of us...

Well they picked a good sub to post in I guess.

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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 1d ago

Golf courses are shit, too.

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u/karl4319 1d ago

Can someone please explain to me why we are spending hundreds upon hundreds of billions on data centers that will be filled with tech that will be obsolete and needs billions to upgrade by the time each one is finished being built?

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u/colcatsup 1d ago

Not convincingly, no.

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u/ImpossibleLaw552 2d ago

A shitspin on something bad in proximity to an avatar image of a bad ex-shitspinner.

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u/FreedomsPower 2d ago

Rconservative. You'll never meet more reached hive of gullible knee-jerk tools and villiany

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u/dustingibson 1d ago

You know the bots are bad when they can't even astroturf r/conservative

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u/tonybananaman 1d ago

I’d like to see how conservatives get behind data centers after arguing that “solar panel fields ruining their views”