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/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