Data center fear porn is the new nuclear power fear porn

There is an old clown in West Feliciana Parish who keeps sharing data center fear porn to all of the local FB groups. Most of the stuff that he is sharing is AI generated .

I'm fairly anti data centers, but for different reasons that a lot of the ones shared on social media.


Mainly because I've seen Terminator 2.



ETA: I do think there is a legitimacy to huge centers using up limited resources though, like water and electricity, and that being pushed onto regular customers. Like the one approved for Corpus Christi, TX. That place is in a pretty severe water crisis, so a data center there could actually be pretty bad (at least potentially).

What I don't understand though, is why these data centers can't simply build their own power plants (or supplemental power sources). If you're spending literal billions on these things, just throw in an extra 10-50 million or whatever and construct your own power source. That way you don't strain the existing infrastructure with your usage. That seems to be a pretty simple solution (although I'm sure there is something I am missing).

If the water and electricity usage stuff is fixed, the only real issue I have is the misrepresentation of what they do for local economies.

It's a lot of 1 time construction jobs and after that you just have a huge ugly building in a random place with a small headcount of staff that maintain it.

Data centers take huge resouces and provide minimal jobs. They need to be only in abandoned warehouses, krogers, walmarts, etc. Not farm land

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People fearing change & the unknown isn’t new

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Chinese propaganda doing work. Doing everything they can to stall US AI innovation.

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Mainly because I've seen Terminator 2.

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That’s much more likely to happen if China wins the AI race.

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computers took up an entire room in the 80s with the computing power of a Gameboy.

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Where were the anti-data center folks back then?

Nuclear is bad too


When we were using all coal power plants more carbon was released into the air and the earth was healthier. Plants grew better with the higher carbon levels and it made people and animals stronger. You see proof of this with how the rainforest and coral reefs are dying today and why all the “men” today are soy boys that like data centers

I care less about the data centers themselves and more about what they are used for

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Capitalist AI > commie AI.

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We’re all equally fricked. SkyNet is on the near horizon.

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We’re all equally fricked. SkyNet is on the near horizon.

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Maybe, but life as a flesh slave to capitalist ai sounds much better than life as a flesh slave to a communist ai