The same can be said people who don't believe in God
If they only understood

Im not against data centers like everything there are pros and cons. I do believe there are beter places to put them as I do with solar farms.

straight up ignorance is believing AI and data centers are gonna benefit you. straight up ignorance is believing data centers and AI are gonna lower your taxes, lower your gas bill, lower your electric bill. etc. those things only go up and never come down. they may drop a little from time to time but then go back up twice as much. NOTHING the government does benefits you. and i repeat NOTHING. but keep drinking that govt koolaid. it must taste great.

"You will owning nothing and be happy". This is what it's all about.

I am going to haul rock today into the 5th data center I have worked on. None of them more than 75 miles from any of the others. Good or bad it's happening.
I wonder if we are headed back to the type of government people had in the middle ages. A small group of royals determining every aspect of the commoners life. Burdensome tax's, rampant poverty, very little self determination. I hope someone can convince me that the things won't be used to track every aspect of a persons life and enable a society that resembles Orwell's book 1984.

I only three that out there because I’ve seen that water usage argument come up so many times from local county officials around here. We had several counties put moratoriums on building them and listed water usage as a reason to keep them out. Then the very same groups passed new golf course building outs and I just scratched my head.
Jim

I think that's exactly where we are headed. There are people that actually think the government should pay them a "living wage", and think somehow AI is going to take us all to that happy place. Yes, there will be good things that come from AI, but the evil will eventually outweigh the good because it always has and it always will. Human nature at work.

Providence that mall idea is great. We have a couple old malls with massive parking lots that would work wonderful for data centers.

For those worried about AI getting into the wrong hands
It already is

I wouldn't want one closer than 10 miles from my house, most malls are in good retail spots. They would be good spots for robot sales for home use.

You will have nothing and be happy, and if you have 2 portions of duty free rice each day you will be ecstatic ! But be careful trying to sneak that 3rd portion because big brother is watching you.

True. Yet the spaces sit empty and towns and cities keep expanding out while the building get into disrepair.. I would like to see cash put into removing, or replacing those empty buildings with something new and useful even if that wont slow or stop urban sprawl, it may stop some farmland from being built on.

Those empty spots downtown will make great mini casinos for even more shift of money from the poor to the rich. Oops there goes the babies rice.

Some of us have been so fixated on the Charybdis of the Left that we are just now becoming aware of the Scilla of the Right.


We might be. We'll all be put back into that great chain of being, but since God is dead, it won't be a spiritual chain but a food chain, and the top will be the god-men of the technocratic oligarchy.

The CCP, with their allies in the media and political parties, are sure good at using fear to control the will of the people. Seems not much was learned from the pandemic. A virus was the boogie man then, data centers are the boogie man now.

Its better to just lose a couple worthless fellows than the whole ship. Unless you or I are one of the worthless fellows, lol !

We are going to need more bleach !!

If there was no need to track everything in a persons life there would be no need for data centers and yes like wind or solar farms everyone wants them because it is written it will lower your cost of living but no one wants them next to them
the improvements i see are press 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or more and then press 1,2,3,4,5,and then get transferred to i'm away from my desk or assisting someone else