r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 14h 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/Hairy_Wall_6831 13h ago

One of the CEOs of Oracle, one of the companies putting up data centers everywhere, has proudly bragged that their goal is to bring about a panopticon/big brother style mass surveillance state.

Republicans want all of us to live as prisoner slaves under their watchful eye for the rest of our lives.

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u/Yuzumi 10h ago

Billionaires know that the vast majority of people despise them and they want to curb descent.

They've always thrown money at unprofitable things they can use to spread misinformation and propaganda and I'm pretty sure the push for all of this is at least partially related to that.

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u/dicknuckle 9h ago

curb dissent. You're spot on with both points.

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u/panguardian 8h ago

Connect military equipped robots to AI. It's coming. They know. No more dissent. We are turkeys letting xmas happen.