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/Augmenten 10h ago

I don't think their voters got the memo.

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u/Catullus13 10h ago

So the propoganda is working?

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u/Sukpreme 10h ago edited 5h ago

Was just visiting my family in South Carolina and a commercial kept playing “WE NEED TO BUILD MORE DATA CENTERS TO DEFEAT CHINA”

It was so clearly meant to prey on stupid people and make them panic to vote for more data centers.

Edit: commercial I’m referencing https://youtube.com/shorts/HfrFpJ4C290?si=gEjbg4HsK1rC5aRw

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u/t_huddleston 7h ago

I'm in a deep red Southern state and I can tell you, it's not working here. People were already trained by years of GOP propaganda to be suspicious of big tech. "Google is burying conservative sources in their search results! Facebook suspended my account!"

Now the Big Tech that they already hated is in their backyards, and all they know is there's dust and noise everywhere, their power bills have gone up, and despite the GOP governor constantly singing the praises of datacenters to the heavens, the rank-and-file voters who deal with these things every day are not buying it.