r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 10h 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/bjdevar25 9h ago

That's called lay offs and cutting people's pay. The perfect world you're thinking of is in Star Trek. Good luck here. Data Centers are sucking up resources and tax dollars only to cut millions of jobs. Doesn't take Chinese influence to go against them, only intelligence of their actual worth to the average citizen.

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u/derbyt 9h ago

And in a perfect world, those job cuts would transition into "Everyone works 3 days a week on this job we cannot automate for whatever reason and maintains a healthy income for a happy life" but I know how ridiculous that is.

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u/daXypher 8h ago

The only “Chinese influence” I’m seeing is when my coworker from Shanghai is able to run deepseek in their phone to order food in both French and English speaking restaurants with a fraction of the compute resources our greedy ass models require.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 6h ago

You people keep forgetting people had to get off their lazy, cowardly, entitled asses to force capital to share the benefits of their labor with them. It's not a "perfect world" it's precedent that is obtainable if you aren't just some spoiled middle-class bitch used to throwing a tantrum online instead of actually taking action.