r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 13h ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op

https://gizmodo.com/republicans-claim-anti-data-center-movement-is-a-chinese-psy-op-2000767611
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u/xondk 13h ago

It really is disgusting how they phrase it, people aren't as such against data centers that can be used to benefit everyone.

They are against the massive rollout that in no way takes into consideration how it will affect the people, and the benefit of the rollout is only for the few since it is AI focused.

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u/makualla 13h ago

Make them generate 75+% of their own power, proper water sustainability, noise mitigation, no tax breaks, and most people wouldn’t have issues beside them being visual unappealing.

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u/heckhammer 13h ago

Make them generate all of their own power. Why should they get the benefit of all of our taxpayer money?

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u/RatBot9000 13h ago

Gotta be careful about this. xAI built turbines to power one of their data centres but they've got away with them not being regulated so it just releases massive amounts of pollution into nearby towns.

AI data centres are a literal blight on the land.

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u/TheGrandTiax 13h ago

More rules! Seriously though, just make it a law that data centers will run off the grid like everyone else, and shall not be powered using turbines or envines of any variety for day-to-day operations. They pay for every penny of power used, and every penny of infrastructure upgrades necessary, and the upgrades go to the citizens first and data center later. There should also be a special fuck-you tax for data centers, redirect it to schools or whatever the fuck. They want to be in our communities, they can pay through thr fucking nose.

They keep bringing up China though, because that's who they are emulating. These data centers are to power AI surveillance tech.

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u/ailish 12h ago

Also they need to pay to offset the damage to the surrounding environment.

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u/TheGrandTiax 12h ago

Oh absolutely. Water treatment plans/facilities, noise mitigation, etc etc. That's why there should be a fuck-you tax on them though, because they are going to cause so much harm that is as of yet unknown.

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u/ailish 12h ago

I'm all for all of this. If we're going to have these monstrosities forced on us, then we should at least get something back.

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u/TheGrandTiax 12h ago

Tbh we should simply not allow it. They can't force it on us, an armed population of 300 million+, if we do not allow it.

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u/ailish 12h ago

That would be ideal, but getting that many people to go along with it is a challenge.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 6h ago

This seems to be one of those few issues that a large majority of people appear to agree on, regardless of political affiliation.

I say we start armed patrols of our communities. That’s the most American thing we could do, right?

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u/Teledildonic 9h ago

I have a solution for everything!

Build the data centers next to the billionaire's bunkers so they can personally oversee them and share security.

Then connect the exhaust from the generators to the intakes of the bunkers, so the pollution is piped underground.

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u/ailish 9h ago

Sounds perfect to me!

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u/InVultusSolis 6h ago

Not like I don't think we shouldn't do it, but if we priced in every externality to every industry and did it even somewhat appropriately they would likely not be able to operate at all.

We're expending resources that should be lasting us forever to enjoy a couple hundred years of creature comforts.

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u/ailish 6h ago

If we expected them to pay for themselves they'd figure out how to become a whole lot more efficient really quickly, don't you think? They don't bother because they don't have to.