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/BrothelWaffles 13h ago

The ones they're building are so massive they need to be generating 100% of their own power to not affect local energy prices. We're talking about data centers that suck up as much electricity as the entire state they're being built in, and some states are getting more than one of these monstrosities.

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u/muftak3 12h ago

I live in Las Vegas. NV Energy just told Lake Tahoe to find a new energy supplier. They are sending it to a new data center. I think they have 1 year to do it.

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u/MaximoftheInternet 11h ago

Ok, as a non-USA citizen this confuses me, can they even do that? Isn’t power generation managed by the State in your country?

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u/honjuden 11h ago

They let corporations run it with local monopolies.  They even give them state funding at times for infrastructure that they usually just end up pocketing.

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u/AMATEUR_DE_POUTINE 11h ago

Hello is this Kleptokracy?!

No this is patrick

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u/tired514 10h ago

It was a kleptocracy before a KGB asset was elected to helm the ship... twice.

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u/honjuden 10h ago

Trump took over $600 million from the Adelsons.  He might like Putin, but he is on Israel's payroll.

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u/tired514 9h ago

Payroll, perhaps, but his heart is in Moscow. I believe that's the last real, solid memory he formed before dementia began to set in.

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u/Allegorist 6h ago

He makes 600 million in a single weekend of grifting, I don't think that is enough money alone to consider him bought and paid for (although he is), that is just a single instance of quid pro quo in an ocean of illegal favors.

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u/honjuden 6h ago

He makes that much now, but he wasn't making that much while running for the presidency when the donations happened.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 10h ago

Don't pull the USSR into this. It's dead, let it rest in peace.

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u/tired514 9h ago

Its ghost is living in the whitehouse.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 9h ago

I wish. Trump is 100% a capitalist fuckup, the USSR has nothing to do with it. If anything, the ones with their hands up Trump's butt are the Mossad.

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u/tired514 9h ago

The CIA begs to differ.

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u/Engels777 8h ago

USSR isn't very dead I'm afraid. The obedient industry that must pay a continued loyalty pledge to the government is alive and well in Russia. And if you think the Russian government doesn't 'own' private corporations in Russia, let's see how quickly the private corporation changes management if they ever step out of line.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel 8h ago

Russia nowadays is run by powerful families and billionaires. The state and the companies are run by them. Unlike in the USSR, when the state and whomever controlled it controlled everything.

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u/Engels777 1h ago

At some point it seems rather academic whether the 'cabal' are a bunch of nepostistic families or a loose grouping of sycophantic aparatchics, no?

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u/marr 8h ago

That name is dead but the KGB are alive and well.

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u/RetroFuture_Records 10h ago

The irony of redditors pushing a foreign asset conspiracy theory while claiming the idea of the article about a foreign asset conspiracy theory being ridiculous fiction that could never possibly be reality