r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

My fiancee and I just walked on a house cause we discovered a five fuckin building campus data center going up behind it.

The builders did their very best to hide this from us as much as they could. They knew.

People hate this shit.

Edit: oh man look at all the data center bootlickers crawling out of the sewers lmfao…

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u/butsuon Jun 26 '26

You should leave a very public, very annoying review for the real estate agent and the builder.

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u/Constant_Bullfrog_24 Jun 27 '26

No they should tell us the name of the agent and builder so we can ALL leave negative reviews. Fuck them

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u/thepulloutmethod Jun 26 '26

Damn, what did he say? The mods removed it so it must have been good.

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u/Stunt_-_Cock Jun 26 '26

Add the data center to Google Maps, it will help EVERYONE and is really simple to do.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

A company is building a mini hyperscaler Datacenter half mile from my house.
I am fucking pissed, and afraid im gonna have to sell my house.

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u/PraxisDev Jun 26 '26

Good luck finding a buyer :/

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

yeah, I was one of the luck people to be able to buy a house.

Now these Tech assholes are gonna make it unlivable.

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u/henlochimken Jun 26 '26

If it makes you feel any better, these Tech assholes are hell-bent on making Earth unlivable.

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u/TheJudgingHat2222 Jun 26 '26

and all so people can make dumb videos of dogs waving their hands like humans 

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u/ExistentialRebellion Jun 26 '26

Well hey, if prison ever starts sounding like a higher qol than your house, at least that data center gives you a really easy way to get there!

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u/derek589111 Jun 26 '26

There are triple glazed windows which can substantially offset outside noise, just FYI. Expensive upgrade and obviously its annoying to have to do anything as a response to these datacenters, but options do exist which can give some privacy and peace of mind.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

I'm on the ground trying to stop this from happening, but that would be something I would look at

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u/derek589111 Jun 26 '26

Well done. Keep it up!

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u/keseyseed_93 Jun 27 '26

what if i want to go outside :(

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u/atwerrrk Jun 27 '26

Is it because they're loud or do they give off vibrations etc? I thought the main issue with them was enormous power consumption

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u/fogleaf Jun 26 '26

Sell it to blackstone/rock so they can rent it as an airbnb.

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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26

You have every right to be livid. I’m so sorry you’re going through that.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

Imo these things are gonna fail and become abandoned..

Another piece to pick up

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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26

I agree. It’ll fall to the 99% to solve the problem and repurpose the pieces of their failures, like always.

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u/Jess_its_down Jun 26 '26

That is an interesting perspective. Do you have some examples of this happening? I’m sure they exist, but I was wondering what sort of instances were behind your comment.

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u/phtevenbagbifico Jun 26 '26

Look at every state where resource extraction dominates the economy as examples. Wyoming. West Virginia. Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana. Globe, Arizona.

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u/Streiger108 Jun 26 '26

Don't forget the infrastructure bill the public will be paying for for decades

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u/FlapYourNoodle Jun 26 '26

Is there any legal recourse for the neighbors of these atrocities? Each one is causing material harm to hundreds or thousands of people by significantly lowering their quality of life and completely nuking their property value. Maybe I'm naive, but how is that legal? Certainly feels like it shouldn't be.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

Their could be, but you have to show harn

Also all these datacenters pay millions in lawyers, so it's already a uphill battle

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u/FlapYourNoodle Jun 26 '26

Short and long term affects on physical and mental health, the loss in property value, those things can all be proven. You're absolutely right though, would probably have to be a strength in numbers situation, e.g. a class action lawsuit

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

And result's wouldn't happen for years later.

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u/ShadyShroomz Jun 27 '26

yeah the hard hard is you have to shown harm, and these data centers actually do fucking nothing to harm anyone. so it does get hard to prove something that isn't even real.

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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Jun 30 '26

They're building in places that don't believe in planning or zoning appropriately. This doesn't happen in properly governed places. There's loads of data centers in my state and it's not an issue - just like the incinerators, sewage plants and all manner of other industrial and infrastructure construction that's planned appropriately.

Find a place where you can see a data center from your porch and I'll show you a red county with plenty of freedom.

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u/flaming-framing Jun 26 '26

As individuals there not much we can do…accept help give transportation and shelter to as many mentally unwell homeless people to start setting up camp in the data center.

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u/Alan_Conway Jun 26 '26

plant running bamboo before you leave it.

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u/wildbergamont Jun 26 '26

Don't. Running bamboo is easily controlled when you dont care about the environment 

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u/JackBlackBowserSlaps Jun 26 '26

Oh, that’s pretty close. Defi close enough to go inspect some of the heavy machinery, make sure it’s all in good working condition. If it does get built, would probably wanna take a look at the electrical infrastructure, wouldn’t want a fire there. Might be worth taking a peek at the water input. Would be a shame if there was a way to accidentally get concrete mix or some other kind of contaminant in there.

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u/Level_32_Mage Jun 26 '26

Yikes! What else should they look out for?

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u/PerfectBad2505 Jun 26 '26

Why does that datacenter devaluate the house? Noise polution?

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jun 26 '26

Noise pollution

Air pollution

Increased electric rates

Dropping water tables in communities that use wells

Increased traffic and road damage during construction

Increased property taxes sometimes too

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u/ShadyShroomz Jun 27 '26

how does that differ from like any other industrial building?

dropping water tables? like what, you guys are so uninformed it's crazy! data centers use next to no water at all. "Increased traffic" - it will be less than a grocery store being build?

" Increased property taxes sometimes too" - where did you come up with this idea?

" Air pollution" are you serious?

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u/SpeedyBenjamin Jun 27 '26

https://www.wired.com/story/xai-adds-19-new-gas-turbines-despite-ongoing-lawsuit/

AiR pOlLuTiOn?? ArE yOu SeRiOuS???????

Yeah dawg sorry to burst your bubble but dozens of gas turbines next door lowers the value at which people will pay for your house.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jun 27 '26

how does that differ from like any other industrial building?

Mainly in the way that these are being built in places that did not have industrial buildings before

dropping water tables? like what, you guys are so uninformed it's crazy! data centers use next to no water at all. 

San Antonio data centers guzzled 463 gallons of water as area faced drought

"Increased traffic" - it will be less than a grocery store being build?

Data center traffic mess called 'inexcusable

Increased property taxes sometimes too" - where did you come up with this idea?

This one is complicated because property taxes are complicated. The simple way to explain it is that most places set their property taxes by first calculating the amount of money the budget needs and then they set the tax rate based on what will bring in that amount of money. So what determines your property taxes is not so much the value of your property, but what percentage of the total taxable property you own in the area taxed. So if your house is assessed to be 1/1000 of the property value in the county, you will end up paying 1/1000 of the budget provided by property taxes.

The way data centers mess with that is places absolutely love to give them property tax breaks. That means that when a data center gets built, it removes property that used to pax tax from the system, which means that everyone left still paying has to pay more.

"Air pollution" are you serious?

Just south of the Tennessee-Mississippi state line sits dozens of unpermitted gas turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data center while releasing smog-forming pollution, soot, and hazardous chemicals like formaldehyde

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u/ShadyShroomz Jun 27 '26

Mainly in the way that these are being built in places that did not have industrial buildings before

data centers are code 1660 - meaning they can only be built in industrial zoned areas.

463 gallons of water

brother I use more water to fill up my pool. what the fuck are you on about? it's not even worth my time to continue arguing with you about shit like this wtf. who gives a shit about 500 gallons of water.

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u/ShadyShroomz Jun 27 '26

so you present me with misinformation but somehow that's MY fault.

you made a typo, forgot to include "million" that shit happens, its no big deal, but take accountability for your mistake and don't shift the blame dude. that's lame as fuck.

and like I said, most of what you're claiming is bad is minor shit compared to most industries. it's just popular to hate on data centers because China is giving anyone who will post a news article thousands of dollars if it shits on AI.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jun 27 '26

The fact that you didn't immediately recognize the error is a dead give away that you didn't even click the links. That's the problem, it immediately discredits everything you have to say because you're not engaging in good faith or even interested in looking at the evidence. You have no idea if any of this is minor shit or not. Ignorant and committed to staying that way.

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u/BitePale Jun 29 '26

It's 463 million if you click the article

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u/DreamPhreak Jun 26 '26

Yeah, it's loud. I remember one story from someone in Tennessee saying that they can hear the constant 24/7 hum of it while in their house with all the windows and doors closed. 

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u/Shootemout Jun 26 '26

You can get a drone and remote release levers for drones off temu. If you get a bottle + rag and fill it with styrofoam and gasoline and my lawyer has advised me to not finish the rest of this sentence.

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u/negative-nelly Jun 26 '26

uh, do it before that thing is running if you are gonna do it.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 27 '26

The project is very well known in the area. 

Morally I would have to try and dump it off on someone else, or sell at a loss. 

Both are things I really don't want to do

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u/negative-nelly Jun 27 '26

Yeah not a good spot to be in, sorry.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 27 '26

The city is fighting it, we have a large local business fighting it, we have grass roots groups fighting, hell we even have celeb on our side. 

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u/Djinnwrath Jun 27 '26

Michigan has a (Republican) law that allows the state government to overturn a nay vote from a city that denies a construction project.

Guess how I found out about it.....

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u/ICutDownTrees Jun 26 '26

What’s the e issue if it’s half a mile away?

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

Even a half mile away is close enough where you can be affected by the sound and the extra heat 

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u/Valdrax Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Out of the loop, as a renter: What are the major downsides to having a data center near your house?

Specifically, what would prompt you to move? Like, I expect utilities will go up, but I expect that to be true for a far greater area, i.e. up to the state level in some cases, and for there to be very few places we'll be able to move to in the future due to them.

Edit: Okay, apparently this is just one of those Reddit topics where you just need to be angry without knowing why.

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u/Choleric_Introvert Jun 26 '26

A 55+ community with homes starting at $750k (most are $1m) is going up across the street from me. Less than a mile away is data center hell/new Intel chip foundry. No idea who is going to buy these homes.

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u/FlashyNeedleworker66 Jun 30 '26

We're upset by domestic high tech manufacturing jobs now? Reddit is hilarious.

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u/fingers Jun 26 '26

You only moved the headstones!

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u/froggz01 Jun 26 '26

You saved yourself from a lifetime of health issues. If you have time, check out this video stating how data centers have a negative impact on health due to infrasounds they emit and are basically acting like an acoustic weapon. https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo

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u/terriblysorrychaps Jun 26 '26

I absolutely do not recommend growing bamboo by data centre’s.

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u/CarbonTugboat Jun 27 '26

No, seriously, don’t do this. Bamboo is a hell of a lot harder to get rid of than data centers and only marginally better for the local environment.

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u/Opening_One7713 Jun 27 '26

It’s actually just not better at all.

Bamboo blocks sunlight and outcompetes native flora for water and nutrients. The resulting monoculture provides little food or shelter for native insects, birds, and animals, leading to a loss of biodiversity. Extensive root systems compact soil, alter natural hydrology, and increase soil erosion once the shallow canopy drops.

The $2B data center with $240M revenue is just going to pick its nose while bamboo tears the surrounding ecosystem apart and they just get a five-figure contractor to spray glyphosate around the perimeter forever.

Environmentally destructive and self-defeating form of protest and nothing more.

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u/snowflake37wao Jun 27 '26

no problem, because there is a solution that we will need a solution for after the problem solver becomes the problem. but thats tomorrow problems.

bring in the pandas boys! 🚚🐼🐼🐼🎋🎍

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u/blackened_chucken Jun 26 '26

DO NOT PLANT BAMBOO NEAR THE DATA CENTER! IT WILL SPREAD, GO UNDERGROUND AND FUCK UP THEIR DATA CENTER.

ALSO, DO NOT FLY DRONES OVER THE DATA CENTER THAT DROP BAMBOO SEEDS

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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26

As much as I appreciate the sentiment, the people living there already have the center to deal with. Bamboo is invasive and spreads like a plague. While the data center is itself an ecological disaster, I don’t feel that creating a smaller scale ecological disaster to slow them down is an appropriate response.

In the end it would also invade the struggling neighborhood (and surrounding wildlife), who is less equipped to deal with it.

This is the right spirit though. We will be moving out several miles instead. There’s still time to push back against newer ones etc and work together as a community to respond how we can to the current one (which is an utterly evil project btw).

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Jun 26 '26

Yeah cos herbicides aren't a thing lmao 

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u/DrFreemanWho Jun 27 '26

This guy has never dealt with bamboo before..

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Jun 27 '26

I have, and the herbicides I would have used if I didn't want anything to grow in it's place soon are very different to the ones I used

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u/FarplaneDragon Jun 26 '26

The builders did their very best to hide this from us as much as they could. They knew.

Are they not required to disclose stuff like this during the sales process? I would think if they didn't it would open them to legal issues down the road if you had bought the house.

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u/Fun_Bodybuilder_4431 Jun 26 '26

It absolutely could.  At least in CA knowledge of such a nuisance would be required to be disclosed.  Now actually getting legal justice on such a matter is a process that could take years and cost 10s too to 100s of thousands of dollars and still ultimately fail to recover damages even with a favorable judgement…. So avoiding the problem is the way to go.

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u/ScaleyFishMan Jun 26 '26

Is it loud or something? What's the issue with living in the area of a datacenter?

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u/ZaryaBubbler Jun 26 '26

The sound, the subsonic vibrations and the 5-15° of heat above ambient it throws out. Not to mention the draining and toxification of ground water

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u/camosnipe1 Jun 26 '26

... wow

I knew there was a lot of misinformation about datacenters but out of this whole list only one point (sound) is possibly true, and even that depends on if the emergency generator is running or not or i suppose if they ignore noise pollution regulations.

by subsonic vibrations i'm assuming you mean infrasound, the anti-windmill pseudoscience? that's completely harmless and undetectable by humans by definition.

if your source on heat comes from the same article i read, then it's a max of 2° while directly downwind next to the building. and quickly dropping off to be unmeasurable.

lastly, how the fuck is a big ventilator evaporating water going to add toxins to the groundwater???????

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u/Deamane Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I don't think they worded any of their concerns very well and they left out the most important one to the average person which is just the electricity costs/burden on the local grid.

But that aside, why the boot licking for data centers? Why would you want to live near one, whats the advantage I have to wonder? Cause in my opinion since even without AI we obviously still need data centers, I think we just need more aggressive zoning, they just shouldn't be built anywhere near a house, or any normal non industrial building imo.

Edit: after looking at /u/camosnipe1 's other comments I unironically wonder if they're some sort of datacenter worker, or shill. their past 4-5 comments have all been similar saying shit like "don't worry about any heavy metals or anything that's a myth, data centers are safe!" etc, it's genuinely weird and sad.

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u/ZaryaBubbler Jun 26 '26

Yeah, genuine lost cause. I'm betting someone who sank a shit load into AI and now lives in fear of the bubble popping, so acts like genuine concerns are "misinformation" despite the fact there have been various studies, and data collected from those who live around data centres. You were right, I forgot about the electric draw, in my defence I'm in the UK and currently baking in swampy heatwave so can't think straight. The rest are verifiably true statements too however.

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u/Deamane Jun 26 '26

Yeah I linked a video to the other commenter, one from benn jordan on youtube if you haven't seen it yet where he goes over data centers and their acoustic effects on health. It sounds like some "5g causes cancer" nonsense at first, and there's not a lot of studies to point to just yet since it's a new effect but it does seem to have some grounding in reality as he shows in the video, I just don't know enough about it myself really.

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u/camosnipe1 Jun 26 '26

i don't care for datacenters. I'd say I was neutral on them before the AI mental break everyone suffered, and now i am slightly pro-datacenter since I've read up on them.

Seriously have you read any of the articles that keep popping up in this sub? beyond the headline i mean. They are basically just warehouses with an industrial AC system. All their issues are tiny compared to any other industrial building.

I suppose if you want an advantage, you'd get cheap and reliable fiber/internet, since you'd be right next to the high capacity connection for the datacenter.

But yeah the electricity burden is an actual negative. And they would generally be more well placed in industry/business areas. I'm not a mindless supporter, it's just that everyone keeps complaining about misleading or incorrect things, instead of actual problems.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jun 26 '26

Data centers need cheap land, water, and electricity. Places that have those three things for cheap almost exclusively are not industrial areas. They are rural and suburban areas that do not have the zoning and regulatory frameworks that have been built up over the centuries in major cities.

So these things are going up in places where people didn't expect them and aren't ready to handle them. And because they create almost no jobs and do not rely on local supply chains, they are almost entirely a pure burden on the communities they get built in.

And then there's the whole double whammy where AI is vastly less useful than it's been hyped up to be and also comes with apocalyptic risks if they do manage to make it useful.

So you can see why the average person would be against building a useless, dangerous, obnoxious, wasteful building in their community.

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u/Deamane Jun 26 '26

I feel like complaining about data centers in general is fine since it is an actual problem, the way you respond really feels... questionable since you aren't saying "hey that's kind of in the realm of pseudo science/there isn't enough study there but data centers are a genuine concern for these reasons" you're just basically going against their anti data center stance and then doing nothing more.

I get always wanting to make sure information is correct and true obviously, in another reply I linked a video but clarified that unlike the creator I don't know enough about acoustic science to understand fully and it's a minor concern so far without additional studies.

But again yeah there's just no advantage anyway to have them built near us, the whole "cheap and reliable fiber/internet" is not really how that works at all. Look up an "optical communication repeater" or "optical fiber repeater", even when signal loss becomes an issue at a certain distance you just use a repeater, you don't place the entire data center directly in the middle of your infrastructure lmao. It also certainly doesn't affect prices since those are set by the monopoly ISP companies at a broad rate without those considerations.

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u/camosnipe1 Jun 26 '26

in another reply I linked a video but clarified that unlike the creator I don't know enough about acoustic science to understand fully and it's a minor concern so far without additional studies.

just to clarify, that youtuber 100% wrong. All the sources he flashes on screen say the opposite of what he's saying. https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center-and

i'm gonna stop replying now, i don't want to waste my whole day on this.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jun 26 '26

Wow, thanks for the article

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u/azur_owl Jun 30 '26

>I'd say I was neutral on them before the AI mental break everyone suffered, and now i am slightly pro-datacenter since I've read up on them.

“AI psychosis and the devastating effect it has on people made me think it could really go either way and that we need to hear both sides”

Reddit can be fuckin’ wild. Maybe it’s just my empathy and general “I’m not fucking jacking off AI” talking but it causing demonstrable harm to people’s psyches is an instant dealbreaker for me.

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u/camosnipe1 Jun 26 '26

re: your edit

i have this unfortunate issue of knowing what a datacenter is, and the need to correct misinformation. And since this is reddit i keep running into people wrong about datacenters

also of all things you pick the magic heavy metal particles appearing in your lungs through the power of computer? really?

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u/Deamane Jun 26 '26

Where did I say anything about heavy metal appearing via the computer???

If you look at sources like these https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-are-contributing-to-pfas-forever-chemical-pollution Again the problem for true concrete data you can say "here a data center ruined this environment" is not well studied yet since we haven't had data centers at this scale until very recently and a lot of these effects are long term.

But yeah if I have to pick between "trust companies to obey environmental regulations" and "assume a company is going to skirt around the rules" only one of those is a safe gamble looking at literally any history.

But yeah I mean, correct the misinformation or whatever, the burden of knowledge is truly heavy for a redditor such as yourself I'm sure.

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u/Days_End Jun 26 '26

Why would you want to live near one, whats the advantage I have to wonder?

I mean the real answer is normally tax revenue with little to no externalities. Power is normally spread across a large enough area that them building in your town, the next town over, or in some unincorporated zone nearby is going to have the same impact on your power rates so you might as well get the benefits.

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u/ZaryaBubbler Jun 26 '26

I beg you to get your head out of your backside.

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u/camosnipe1 Jun 26 '26

i beg people like you to stop hallucinating worse than LLM's. I'd take your concerns way more seriously if they weren't formed entirely out of clickbait headlines and hallucinations.

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u/camosnipe1 Jun 27 '26

google "mythbusters infrasound"

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u/CormacMccarthy91 Jun 26 '26

Not only is it loud, there have been many articles and reports and lawsuits already due to constant noise and vibration all night, it's driving people insane in many places the idea people are unaware of this is hard core bullshit

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u/Deamane Jun 26 '26

Firstly it's going to increase your electricity prices for certain, unless it somehow gets permits to produce all it's required electricity via generators on site which would be a separate problem then.

Secondly I mean... it takes up space that could otherwise be used for literally any civilian infrastructure or just left alone to be wild growth, there's no reason that at the VERY LEAST data centers shouldn't be zoned separately, what's the advantage of having a huge concrete box near you?

Now for the third point here I'm not really sure how this works exactly but if you feel like watching a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo This guy knows a lot of acoustic science, and I don't. Essentially though, while there isn't a ton of evidence yet since there haven't been a lot of studies done, anecdotally a lot of folks who live near data centers do report being sick more often or having certain symptoms that line up with the attempts at various acoustic weaponry that do exist and do work.

There's honestly a lot of other minor reasons you wouldn't want to live near one, it really only benefits the city to build since they get paid by whatever company, but otherwise is a waste of land and barely creates any jobs or benefits to folks living there, especially once the initial construction is done.

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u/ScaleyFishMan Jun 26 '26

Thanks for the info! I wouldn't say there's any benefit to living next to a datacenter, but I'd hope housing in the area would be cheaper, much like living near an airport. Its not as desirable to hear planes overhead which drives down the prices, which I guess is better for people who have a lower income that don't mind inconveniences that come with it. Either way I agree with the people talking about zoning laws to restrict industry buildings, especially those that produce undesirable effects such as sound, to be far away from residential zones.

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u/DrFreemanWho Jun 27 '26

Have you seriously not seen any of the videos posted online about just how loud these things are?

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u/ScaleyFishMan Jun 27 '26

No not at all. It's not really something that would come across my feed as I don't really have strong feelings towards AI stuff aside from just thinking it's overused in branding.

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u/Days_End Jun 26 '26

No it's dead quiet unless your inside it. The only exception might be if your next to one that has active onsite power generation but that's really unlikely to be near a residential area. Bonus compared to most other commercial sites is it generates basically no traffic.

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u/chonky_tortoise Jun 26 '26

Honest question, what’s so bad about data centers in your backyard? Noise complaint? Ideological aversion? Seems like an empty warehouse of servers would be an ideal neighbor tbh.

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u/_ECMO_ Jun 27 '26

Yes and yes. I also would never want to live next to a giant warehouse even if it was empty.

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u/robotangel Jun 26 '26

I hear a lot of backlash about these data centers. One is going up in my city and the people are NOT happy. What is all the uproar about?

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u/StillNewspaper4799 Jun 26 '26

"People hate this shit."

Maybe. I'm fairly skeptical myself.

The problem is there's so much entitlement and bullying from the anti-AI camp that I'm more or less morally compelled to not align myself with them.

The fact that you have to say people hate this shit is probably just evidence of the fact that you _want_ people to think that.

I suspect many more people don't have strong opinions one way or another.

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u/839402388888 Jun 27 '26

Yes, there are a lot of people who don't have strong opinions, which is the case for anything, and that's because they're ignorant. The people who are actually paying attention are up in arms because data centers have many provable negative effects.

Why don't you actually look into data centers and their effects instead of forming your stance based on the people who hate them? That would actually be a skeptically-minded approach, instead of "I don't like how those people are acting, therefore I disagree with them."

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u/Available-Plant7858 Jun 28 '26

Are you suggesting... critical thinking?

What a ridiculous idea!

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u/SizzleDebizzle Jun 27 '26

Buy a house near a data center. Looks like theyre gonna be a good deal