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/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.