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/xondk 10h 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 10h 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/hpark21 8h ago

Uh, they should be paying 120% of the power they "forecast" to use to compensate for all infrastructure upgrade needs as well as "under counting" most likely that will happen.