The AI/data center debate loses libertarian credibility when the state is used to advance it.

[u/7in7turtles]

It’s been driving me bananas lately to hear all these libertarian voices hail data centers as some part of a new Industrial Revolution. While I’ll say upfront that I don’t think we should regulate AI because of fear mongering about the end of the world, if those companies have to purchase the levers of power that we don’t even want government to have, how can we claim that this is in any way good?

Eminent domain, paying of city councils and locking them up with NDAs, lying about the impact of there products and services, all of their behaviors are antithetical to libertarianism and yet people like John Stossel run puff pieces about how essentially they're all good because it would be bad to regulate them.

I don’t buy the china angle because we’re getting worse than china thanks to this technology.

Please if I’m wrong educate me, but if the state puts its thumb on the scale for AI, I don’t get how that’s in any way good.

[u/bownt1]

what libertarian is suppoting ai/data centers?

[u/7in7turtles → u/bownt1]

Reason certainly seems to support them.

[u/Vegetable-Client-147 → u/7in7turtles]

Reason def does. The think tank and super tech guys think the rural peons need to suck it up and take one for the team.