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What about data centers is making folks so mad they forget to even be racist??? Like??? Are the tech CEOs just this off-putting? Are we all just this exhausted of rich fuckers? I still want to understand.

As someone whose parents have fracking happening on 3 sides of their house that’s so remote it’s almost 40 minutes to the next gas station, I can say that having that kind of noise & light & air pollution 24/7 is viscerally upsetting in a way few other things I’ve experienced are.

yeah but like... people down here are mad BEFORE they have shown up. folks are losing their shit about the rumor of a potential data center down the road, and it's just... "this is happening to other people" is not usually a motivating realization for a lot of these people?

Data centers have the sweet spot of issues for everyone in my mind. General ignorance of what they do so no real priors for most. Tech being coded liberal for many conservatives (especially with insanely off putting know it all doing a massive media push), local government input for types that 1/

love to yell at every meeting while also skipping that section whenever possible (so those state/federal types are forcing something on us!), and then steal my jobs as an advertising method to finish it off. Without the cultural backing to ignore outcomes like so many other issues and here we are.

People keep telling me "oh but they can see how this impacts them in their own backyard" and like I'm sorry but I live in rural Alabama, I can see how 8,000 GOP policy decisions impact all of us every day. But usually the white conservatives are selectively oblivious because (usually) racism.

I mean the answer really could be "the tech CEOs are just that off-putting" because they are even if you didn't spend the last week trying to dodge harry potter cult discourse like an Neo in the Matrix

If I had to guess, and this is a guess, most other policies they put under general government stuff which they relate more to Dems, the whole playbook of Government doing things bad and all of that Data centre's bypass that I suspect because of how new they are and being connected to tech

it's the first time republican politics didn't cater exclusively to the texan ranch owner in some way.

but it's not. it absolutely 100% I guarantee is not.

oh yeah he's been hurt in other ways by this shit but it's all favorable to the business so he probably thought it was fine. though i'm really curious to know why he gives a shit about this. maybe he has a nuanced take on datacenter power usage and the instability of the texas grid? lmao

"First, they came for everyone with a different skin color, but I'm white. Then, they put kids in cages and mines, but I'm an adult man. Then, they took away women's rights, and I'm not sure women should have rights...especially if they weren't born female. Then, they built a data center near me!!!"

It is really wild that this is the only thing he thinks is impacting him as an adult...and he's not like 19 years old. The lack of empathy that implies is astonishing.