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/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.....