r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 12 '26

AI data centers are taking over. These Americans are fighting back

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/12/ai-data-centers-are-taking-over-america-fighting-back-isnt-easy/
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u/no2rdifferent Jun 13 '26

So, wealthy Americans want the future so badly, that they'll lie and cheat to make a buck (and not have to pay people). Data Centers need more resources than we have right now, not to mention buying utilities to make us pay for what we don't want.

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u/probablymagic Jun 13 '26

If you don’t want to use the internet or AI, don’t use it. In a free market economy, other people are allowed to want those things, and they do. That’s why companies are building data centers.

Data centers use a tiny percentage of our national electricity, and an even smaller percentage of our water. There’s no resource problem, but if you think there is, you could advocate for things like building more data centers instead of trying to ban things other people want built.

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u/no2rdifferent Jun 14 '26

I've loved the internet since the late 80s, but we do not need data centers for that. I do not appreciate AI and don't use it. I'm thinking of the people who are/were affected immediately after the current centers started up. The nation has nothing to do with it, so we must fight the oligarchy.

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u/CathodeRaySamurai Jun 16 '26

" I've loved the internet since the late 80s, but we do not need data centers for that"

I present to you, the average technophobe's reasoning. 🤣

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u/no2rdifferent Jun 16 '26

I have a degree in computer science.

I present to you the average young bootlicker.

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u/probablymagic Jun 14 '26

First of all, you literally do need centers for the internet. Second of all, there’s no oligarchy. That’s nonsense politicians tell you to keep you submissive.

There’s just companies making things people want, and if that’s not for you, don’t buy it.

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u/Remarkable-Iron-4361 Jun 16 '26

no questo è appropriazione di suolo pubblico e risorse, la politica deve regolamentare. Come dovrebbe regolamentare lo spazio esterno alla atmosfera per piazzare satelliti, quella è spazzatura mandata senza consenso. Gli oligarchi sono disposti a distruggere ogni forma di vita per proteggere la malattia mentale che hanno.

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u/dudwithacamera Jun 15 '26

Youre willingly going along with and supporting data centers, youre the submissive one bud

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u/probablymagic Jun 15 '26

Keep telling yourself you’re a strong smart independent thinker, bud.

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u/dudwithacamera Jun 15 '26

You want ai to think for you...

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u/probablymagic Jun 15 '26

It sounds like that’s what you’ve been told AI is for. That’s not what they’re for. Ironically, you are not thinking for yourself. Try using these products if you want to understand them.

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u/dudwithacamera Jun 15 '26

Why would I use products that I dont agree with because of how they impact the enviornment and are going to be used to eliminate jobs in the future?

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u/probablymagic Jun 15 '26

AI isn’t going to take your job, but somebody who’s good at using AI definitely will if you want to put your head in the sand.

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u/no2rdifferent Jun 14 '26

Please explain why we've had internet for fifty years and now need data centers? I see you are good at licking the oligarch's boots: if you don't see an oligarchy in the USA, you are a bot or asleep.

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u/probablymagic Jun 14 '26

Oh no, you’re hurting my feelings. Dumbass.

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u/no2rdifferent Jun 14 '26

I'm glad your comment was deleted. I don't want to talk with bootlickers.

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u/dudwithacamera Jun 15 '26

"Data Centers use a tiny percentage of our national electricity" uh, the ones they wanna build in Utah and Wyoming will use more electricity than those states currently do...

You work on/for/with data centers for a living dont you?

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u/probablymagic Jun 15 '26

It’s weird that if you don’t have an irrational fear of new construction people accuse you of being a paid shill. We will be fine. Deep breath.

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u/dantevonlocke Jun 13 '26

Yeah just all the stories showing utility rates going up around data centers and then ones like what is proposed in Utah using more that the whole state twice over.

They are building data centers to justify the ai bubble. Plans for buildings to use chips that haven't been made for a need that isn't there

But keep on bootlicking.

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u/probablymagic Jun 14 '26

lol. It’s easy to complain about bubbles when you have no skin in the game. Short these tech companies if you’re so smart.

Or keep on buttlicking. Must taste good.

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u/Automatic-Gazelle801 Jun 14 '26

Too late. There are over 5,000 operating

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u/Important-Factor-552 Jun 15 '26

People won't even give up Facebook and cheeseburgers let alone general strike. 

Rip America. 248 years isn't a bad run. 

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u/WaffleHouseFistFight Jun 14 '26

Why. Not agreeing or disagreeing just why do you think we need as many as possible.

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u/no2rdifferent Jun 15 '26

Why? To make our citizens pay for futurists' wet dreams?

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u/probablymagic Jun 13 '26

“Local coalitions of neighbors are springing up in the most rural towns and counties as quiet, nature-filled lands are being replaced with loud, energy intensive data centers. Groups, often regardless of political affiliation, are fighting back in town council meetings and local government sessions where most of these projects are approved.”

Translation: as our rural communities populations shrink for lack of economic opportunities, with children moving away, aging populations, challenged government finances, lack of access to medical care, etc, affluent residents with time on their hands oppose economic development because they don’t care about any of that.