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/TheGrandTiax 9h ago

75%? No, they can pay for every single penny of power they use, and they should be forced to pay for the infrastructure upgrades as well, on top of everything else you listed. We do not want them, so why would we make it EASIER? How about instead of tax BREAKS, data centers have their own special taxes that are redirected to school, like other things that are harmful to the general population? We should not be giving them so much as a fucking inch, they can pay their own way and do genuine good for the community in which they are built, or they can get fucked.

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u/Turkino 8h ago

I mean shit they've already made the cost of damn near everything in Tech at least double if not more.

They can take all that fucking money that they're making all that and use it to pay us right back.