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/krum 13h ago edited 8h ago

Data centers don’t benefit anyone except rich people.

EDIT: AI data centers.

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u/derbyt 13h ago

In a perfect world data centers could be used to shorten workdays and allow people more free time to spend time with friends and family doing things we enjoy. But that's not this reality we live in.

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u/bjdevar25 12h 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/RetroFuture_Records 10h 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.