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This is it. Data centers have become a target not because of the specifics of their water usage or whatever but because they're the one visible, local leverage point for ordinary people to push back on the "turd mountain" of AI that's being foisted on them with little tangible benefit and no consent

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social

Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...

doomsdayscenario.coAI is making everything worseThe political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.

20/8/26, 6:30 pm32 reposts179 likes

Ralph

@ralphhhenson.bsky.social

20 Aug

In fairness, here in drought-ravaged New Mexico a lot of the opposition has to do with water.

bluehale.bsky.social

@bluehale.bsky.social

20 Aug

UKG has an AI bot. Like why do I need an AI chatbot to tell me how to punch in and out for work?

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@jordanw2382.bsky.social

20 Aug

Why-not-both.gif!

Dystopos

@dystopos.bsky.social

20 Aug

I going to offer that another objection is the proliferation of secretive negotiations with public officials prior to news “leaking” when they eventually file something publicly

Brian Probert

@brianhprobert.bsky.social

20 Aug

Because of the borrowing involved they will also be pushing up the cost of everyone’s mortgages — and that’s a worldwide harm not a local effect

Dr JMThayer

@jthayer.bsky.social

20 Aug

And underneath that, this is the infrastructure for the surveillance state #datacenters

MyMaLu

@1rmctldy.bsky.social

20 Aug

We r so sucked in already and folks just keep buying that ‘smart’ sht. This stuff is not your friend. Every advantage has equal/opposite disadvantage. Every accessibility has a dark side. Never have WiFi/BT on unless in use. Let battery go dead dead dead. Don’t stay connected. Drop out of skynet.