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Anti-data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite media class (i.e. the kinds of people who write for Politico), who are scared of
by JuniperMesos 5mo ago
Anti-data-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite media class (i.e. the kinds of people who write for Politico), who are scared of AI. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to build infrastructure in spite of short-sighted or malicious activist opposition.
- aggakake 5mo agoI'm getting a shill vibe from the shill accusation.
- add-sub-mul-div 5mo agoThis is incredible. On the range from zero to multiple layers of irony it's a great read regardless of where it lands.
- usefulcat 5mo agoIs it really that difficult to believe that these residents—many of whom are living out in the country by choice—really just don’t want this kind of development near them? And that they have taken action of their own volition? I laughed out loud at the suggestion that rural Texans are reading Politico, or any other “elite media” for that matter. I say this as someone who has lived in TX for decades. ETA: to be fair, I'm not saying that what you describe never happens, but no way is this an example of it.
- JuniperMesos 5mo agoYeah, there probably are some rural people who just reflexively oppose any kind of construction, NIMBYs are everywhere. The psyop is Politico writing an article in support of them, instead of comparing what they're doing to redlining or some other historic phenomenon that the Politico writers see as racist against nonwhites.
- jmye 5mo agoYes, not wanting a data center is the same as fucking red-lining. What an astronomically bullshit argument and false equivalence. What a stunning display of intellectual dishonesty.
- bit-anarchist 5mo agoI think they mean to say that Politico is the kind of company to pull this bullshit spin when it is convenient. Not that excuses your astronomical lack of decorum.
- fakedang 5mo agoData-center advocacy is so clearly a psyop driven by members of the elite techbro class (i.e. the kinds of people who write comments like these), who are scared of the middle class. I wish the US had better constitutional protections for people who want to protect their quality of life and their jobs in spite of short-sighted or malicious billionaire opposition.
- petee 5mo agoAnd you're 100% ok if it were being built immediately outside your window, right?
- iloveoof 5mo agoThis is like saying that you should oppose electricity or factories if you don’t want them in your backyard.
- king_geedorah 5mo agoIf given the choice, which would you prefer? A) An electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside B) No electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside
- amazingamazing 5mo agoI would personally, why not (generally curious why there is opposition. Things such as the whole electric infrastructure costs being passed on to consumers is not inherent to a data center build, just a failure in policy).
- dozerly 5mo agoTo name just a single reason: they produce noise at inaudible frequencies that makes people sick.
- amazingamazing 5mo agoInteresting - got a source? Id be surprised if such a noise survives a few miles.
- JuniperMesos 5mo agoI think this is a fake phenomenon, like people who claim to have some kind of sensitivity to radio waves that causes them chronic illness that induces them to move to the national radio quiet zone (https://wjla.com/news/health/allergic-to-radio-signals-sufferers-flee-to-west-virginia-quiet-zone--68429 https://wjla.com/news/health/allergic-to-radio-signals-suffe...). The main difference is that when people complain about the negative health effects of 5G cell phone radios, the Politico-writer class makes fun of them for being conspiracy theorists instead of arguing that the existence of these people is one of several good reasons to get rid of 5G cell phone towers.
- ryandrake 5mo agoHeaven forbid residents might get a say in whether or not a corporation can come in and build a huge blight / negative externality right next to them in their community! We should just let corporations build whatever they want anywhere they want to, right?
- fastest963 5mo agoThis is what zoning is for. If you live near land zoned for industrial or commercial then you can't fight it when someone wants to develop the land. If you don't want to live near something like that you shouldn't have bought/rented next to that zone.
- jmye 5mo agoOr I can fight to rezone that land because a single pass of zoning, shockingly, isn’t fucking permanent. Y’all do vaguely understand how government works, right? Planning and zoning is a core function. This is hardly rocket science, except, I suppose, when your vibe-code shit start-up depends on building data centers in other folks’ backyards.
- fastest963 5mo agoRezoning land is extremely difficult and likely requires changes to the Master plan for the city/county. If a citizen is unhappy with a zone nearby do not move there. If an area is zoned for industrial and someone wants to build a datacenter there without variances I don't see why anyone should be able to say no. Same thing for building condos or single-family homes in areas zoned for those. There's almost always variances though which is why there is even an opportunity to say no.
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