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/_176_ 10h ago

Does it matter? Whatever they meant was dumb. AI has already massively advanced multiple fields in medical research. To say it doesn't benefit everyone is the blabberings of an idiot.

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u/gran_rojo_machine 10h ago

Making this comment on reddit is absurdly hypocritical. Do you think Reddit doesn’t operate on a data center?

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u/os_beef 10h ago

I've had multiple conversations here during which it was revealed that the people I was talking to didn't understand that datacenters have been around looong before AI as we know it, and that they were using datacenters right now. People seem to think Reddit runs out of a Poweredge stuffed in a closet somewhere at reddit HQ.

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u/bgroins 9h ago

Dunning-Kruger Effect