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They pollute the land and water and make communities hotter along with raising utility rates.

We hate them because they will greatly degrade the environment and when the financial bubble bursts and the system fails, they will retreat to their yachts and islands and the taxpayers will be left with the bill.

I think also because more people are FINALLY waking up to the fact that if we keep on killing our planet, we, meaning the human race, will die.

They stole our information and are milking our electricity on our dime. But the most unforgivable and dumbest is polluted our drinking water. Go to Antarctica where you can get cold air for free.

One data centre consumes 1 million gallons of water. And AI is overall a huge negative for societies. These data centres are environmentally unsustainable and govrrnments should intervene to restrict their roll out.

Agree!

They're also making electricity unaffordable, ruining the environment, stealing from actual artists, ruining what little is left of the integrity of news organizations, raising temperatures, and allowing for mass surveillance. We hate them for all the reasons, not because nazi tech bros make em.

The most important factor to me, that doesn’t seem to get mentioned, is that they need to build these data centers because they need someplace to put all the surveillance data they’re acquiring on you and I. So they can raise prices in real time, so they can find us when the want. Right?

The ai industry has become too big to fail with massive investments and buildouts. Who is going to foot the bailout bill when the bubble pops? Yeah. Plus all the mass surveillance implications of these “data centers”.

The TechBros and the Murdocks are responsible for this shitshow call Merica. #Greed

I wouldn't even call this a simplistic view. More like a childish view. The fact that we all know the data centers are nothing more than get rich quick schemes to the fact they are taking valuable land and resources with the harmful noise and pollution or the fact that they destroy people's lives

The specific plans for a lot of these centers weren't publicized until they were essentially approved. When the details come to light, people realize what a center will do to their water and air. People are especially mad about the water.

They represent the dry iceberg and millions of workers know it

To some extent. But I think they are mostly hated because the are energy guzzling, pollution emitting, unbearable noise boxes that create potable water paucity.

Sure. Fuck golf courses.

So you want to turn off the Internet?

You’re comparing a massive 1,000,000 sqft concrete structure filled with tons of plastic and metal to a golf course? BTW, prove that golf courses use more water. Either way, golf courses use the water to grow grass and trees, not cool the matrix so that it can murder more humans.

Data Centers: Collecting data on everyone. F*uck that.

Tech oligarchs are the bubble people of the parasite class, strangely unaware of how disturbing they all are, believing we humans are merely pawns in their contrived dystopian game.

Tech bors keep saying in public ist is a good idea

Getting wealthier is only part of it. They have little to no care about the irreversible damage they'll do to people, our communities, and the environment.

These guys also talk about end times, Armageddon, white nationalism, and all sorts of other strange and disturbing things. They definitely don’t give a damn about people. Why would we trust them?

There are a lot of reasons to despise data centers. It’s the combination of job loss, increased electricity costs, environmental destruction, horrible discourse around AI slop videos, hoarding tech hardware like grubby goblins, rising costs of ram/storage/GPUs…..I can’t think of a single pro.

Everyone hates them. No one wants to do without them.

Because they consume massive resources, because they are mass polluters, and because they offer zero value as a whole to society. Does there even need to be any more reasons than those?

They're a monument to plagiarism. Selling you back your own knowledge at a huge price.

They are also loud, use excessive amounts of energy driving our costs up, use excessive amounts of water, and the over reliance of the technology is going to be a detriment to people and our society. It is just in the beginning stages of destroying livelihoods.

Tech Bro evil, and the vast water & electricity used by data centers raising costs; the environmental destruction; loss of our sovereignty to choose NOT to live next to one; destruction of property values; taking our jobs; and the fact that Trump Crime Family are invested in them. What’s the upside?

ALSO PRIME LAND WATER AVAILABILITY UGLY

I think it’s also that all our electric bills are skyrocketing.

Yes, but how happy I am with some of their features.

Water and noise. The discussion can begin and end with those two. What follows is housing values plummet. People don't want to live there any more than you do.

I think data centres are a necessity. The problem is the ramming through of their builds without the community having a say. They brought it on themselves. We hate tech bros for a very good reason

And they’re not paying taxes

He’s sums it up in simple terms that even I get! 😂

They’re going to kill you Jake in a concentration camp because you’re too fucking stupid to get off your ass and shut down this fucking dictatorship 

I think of 1848 France. Where the proletariat and petit bourgeois united to bring down a monarchy and the oligarchy that ran France. But continue to see an easily fractured country unable to unite because of petty social differences and race in the USA.

I think people hate them for the more practical reason that their presence means increased electricity/water cost

It's kind of suspicious that these places are popping up in peoples LITERAL back yards- no impact studies, none of the usual bureaucratic BS for typical construction sites. I'm seeing interviews of people who wake up with them next to their property and the sound is pretty obnoxious.

They use up badly needed water, especially in the southwest where it's very precious. They use massive amounts of electricity and cause rates to soar. They actually generate very few jobs.

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It's not just that. It's the further rape of our natural resources and planet by these tech billionaires and trillionaires. They surreptiously build these with little public notification or approval. They are pillaging!

That and they destroy people’s peace of mind and sense of place.

Nailed it

I think we should all plant bamboo near data centres.

How is it determined that the data in data centers is correct?

Also, they are terrible neighbors. Loud and ugly. And since very few people actually work in them, they don't do anything to support local businesses.

That and the way they don’t respect the users. Example, Micro$oft pushing Copilot directly on the OS, and forcing people to watch advertisements.

They are being planned to imprison us

They’re sucking up all the water 😡

An important feature of data centers is that they need cooling, and evaporative cooling is powerfully effective. Especially in arid climates.

Honey, don’t worry about it They are going to put you in a concentration camp and when they send you down to the showers, you will never come back to your room and you won’t have to worry about these things anymore. These are the fucking morons I have to live with 

Data centers aren't being used primarily or even secondarily as storage centers for surveillance. There's no need. Storage of that magnitude doesn't require that much space. They are used for training next-gen AI models.

They’re not, though. If they’re dropped in someplace without adequate power or cooling they’re a problem locally, but people are blurring that in their mind into a national crisis. This is mild hysteria. bsky.app/profile/jshe...

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I think they represent noise, higher electricity bills and water shortages. Stop using AI to do everything on your phine and we wouldn't need them.

They’ve abused any trust we had.

Totally

AI fucking sucks! They say it’s revolutionary but it’s all lies. It’s way more dangerous than revolutionary. It has already wrecked people’s lives. Data centers are killing our resources. It’s not worth it by a long stretch!

Data centers are unnecessary in the 1st place, poorly thoughtout, a waste of natural resources, dangerous polluters for the environment & nuisances to their neighbors. They must eliminate all these negatives before being deployed. It's high tech, right? So be high tech & make yourself a common good!

It's more about the poisoning of the air and water, use of resources that people need to live, and the stealing of energy from communities while making everything more expensive on top of it. We're already dying out here, and they just make it worse.

Nah. Its because rural Americans live in a bubble and fear anything they dont understand. They're reactionary by nature and despise change. Someone stands up and lists a bunch of scary trigger words and they grab the pitchforks instead of informing themselves.

Noise, disturbances in nature, intense water usage, and community power rate hikes are what makes them so horrible. Oligarchs getting rich is just the 💩 on top.

It's also a very clear example of plutocracy. The rich tech companies come in and bribe/buy politicians to ok their centers and waive environmental/zoning/other laws. The data centers don't create many jobs after they are constructed and just suck up resources and pollute, pollute, pollute.

Data centers will produce short term mega friggin' profits for the wealthy investors then the impact on power and water resource depletion for the general public will be notoriously evident.

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They don't need to, obviously. Increased productivity with less humans working... That's literally a socialist dream. It's CRAZY how many "progressives" have been brainwashed into literally being afraid of getting what they wished for.

Not remotely!!!

EXACTLY. Residents have incentives to overlook pollution from industrial facilities or even logistics centers that provides jobs, but data centers only take resources and pollution.

Techbro Fascist Surveillance Centers

We’re all enjoying the fruits the overlords are providing. Let’s quit whining.

I heard somebody say, "AI gives wealth access to talent while depriving talent access to wealth." Sounds accurate to me.

I agree. It's a sign of how they are using us to enrich themselves.

It's also about the resources they use - HUGE amounts of water & electrical power

*fuck! Potholes!

Take every bit of personal info from all the apps and analyse it to figure how best take every thing you hold sacred Record every word you post, blah blah blah. There is a difference between infrastructure and hyper surveillance. e.g. facial recognition paired with surveillance... not just the usa

How did this app run before data centers popped up everywhere? How did Facebook manage? I call bullshit.

Not something that is needed when you are struggling to make end meat....

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Didn’t someone say that, “they can use Piss, instead of our fresh water.”?

So does growing corn that humans largely don't consume because it's used for ethanol or feeding to cows to provide reduced caloric food that humans do consume. When this is all explained, the argument will shift to something else.

Plus you used "in the World" and I couldn't find info about that...

Oh, good, then it will achieve the same kind of silence about water usage once it achieves parity or surpasses the golf courses that don't generate anything close to the outrage heroin for social media sloganeers.

I also hate golf courses. 🤷‍♂️ I mean, we aren’t limited to only hating one thing.

They represent the naked rapacity of the brutally rich. They are inefficient, environmentally destructive, regressive, and serve nobody but AI overlords who are themselves grotesquely inefficient. The people are supposed to lose everything so that the brutally rich can remain stupid.

All of this, and all the drain on resources to local communities

Precisely Adam. There are also the lies that data centers bring large numbers of jobs and boost the local economy. A massive data center brings about 75 jobs. Mostly routine tech work (cabling, installation and deinstallation). A few engineers and security. Most get state-offered tax breaks.

They need to look at the environment impact, and social impact. Where is the voice of the people?

Stealing land and water, polluting and raising electric bills, consolidating power toward an authoritarian surveillance state, all while it endlessly steals people's creations without a cent back. What the fuck is there to like exactly?

I think we should also credit the enormous amount of energy and water they consume while the planet is burning.

Don't know. Perhaps, data centers should be planned only for areas where they will be most used. And, water and electric utilities should give them limited subsidies in exchange for free AI use. AI is going to be a subscription service, right? Otherwise where is profit derived from?

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I'd say there's a high probability there. I think also that their impact on the natural world and local communities has a part to play. These are individuals with imaginable wealth, with unjustified influence on global affairs, yet their most significant contribution to the world. Suffering!

I think people don't like how they're destoying their lives, while the billionaires have millions of acres of their own land they don't want to spoil with those monstrosities of waste and destruction.

Let's go let those tech billionaires to put some money and urgency behind clean energy research and build out of electrical grid improvements .

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Obviously there's a demand for them, otherwise they wouldn't be making money. It's funny that we all claim to hate these people yet we continue paying our internet bills.

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At a very basic human level - it's the water. Back in the dark ages churches were built around proven wells. 1000 of years later things have changed but somehow the whole ai datacentre thing thing has the same feel to it.

That and the lack of consensus with the people who have to live with them and suffer the environmental impact costs. Particularly when government and capital are neglecting even the basics required for a minimal quality of life. Appalling and immoral.

They represent the fact that a few people in this country can do whatever they want-no matter how many people they harm or kill in the process. They have deregulated they have made available our birthright of land and a healthy environment in the United States. They have sold off our birthright.