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abufrejoval The Chinese tend to have good sense and brutal ideology. And I can't even see the propaganda, while I came to the proper conclusion all of my own. And as a European I see no benefit in the US dominating anything, unless they share the values they used to preach themselves. BTW: didn't you want to keep politics out of this site? Or is the pressure to produce click-bait simply too high? Reply
Jabberwocky79 Whether it is happening or not, who's to know, but as the article stated, superpowers can take a legitimate issue and amplify it to suit their own ends. It's like the Joker said in The Dark Knight " "I took Gotham's white knight and I brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard. You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push." Reply
Findecanor No. American propaganda is to blame for (part of) the anti data centre sentiment. Those massive data centres represent what was used for creating videos of Trump dumping excrement on protesters, fake clips and other videos. Reply
stead79 Utahan here, O'leary wants to build the largest data center in the world in the middle of a resource starved desert state. The initial water request was that of what a medium sized city uses. Then on top of that we have pollution problems where we constantly have particulate mater inversions throughout winter that can get as thick as dense clouds. He wants to add more fossil fuel burning power generation just to power his PCs There is also the heat component where they would just be helping heat the environment. Utah is just not the place to build this. Just like the no kings protest claims that people are paid to protest, they are not, we just care about what kind of future our kids will have if we destroy the planet by capitalism competition to have the biggest and best data center. We have water issues everywhere, just look at the Colorado river being overly used and the drought conditions that have been ongoing in the western states. Reply
PEnns When you're failing and have no ideas: Blame China! This reminds me of a popular South Park clip, just replace Canada with China and it makes even more perfect sense! Blame Canada or even better: China! Reply
alrighty_then If America stopped all data center creation it still wouldn't stop AI from continuing to improve and taking some jobs. It could prevent high electricity costs so if people want to make that argement, I get it. Although, given the benefits, and the fact the smartest people are all-in on it, there is no stopping AI in the US and that's a good thing. For the college kids booing it, I suggest adapating and embracing the tech rather than fearing/hating it. Reply
Coldestcrow Where i am at, in Idaho, we have water rights laws. What Meta has done was purchase land with old water rights to hold off any water restrictions, and essentially guaranteed clean fresh water before humans for their data center. Keep in mind this is in a desert climate with existing water restrictions imposed because of the current drought. I understand this will be the largest site in the united states and the 6th largest in the world. When data centers are coming before humans, such as in this instance, it's wrong, and it's built so quickly the regular population can't stop it without resorting to extreme measures. Reply
-Fran- Dang… Not the Chinese again! Quick, someone call Santa so he can stop the propaganda machine and save the Datacentres! Regards. Reply
txfeinbergs Does Kevin have a data center near his multiple mansions? Would he tolerate them? No? There is your answer. Reply
logainofhades That must be the most tone deaf blame game comment that I have ever seen. Reply
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