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Three-quarters of Americans said in a recent poll that they oppose datacenters being built next to their homes
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[–] HeronHouseHamilton@lemmy.zip 64 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're already poor. That's why they're being preyed upon by data centers

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 24 points 2 weeks ago

Temporarily embarrassed datacenters😂

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why not put a few at mar a lago

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 14 points 2 weeks ago

Get the trade unions on it!!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why would he care? He's profited and scammed to the tunes of billions of dollars in profits off the presidency.

His power bill going up isn't a problem.

Is just a problem for everyone else who isn't a piece of shit.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“Mr. President: Think about farm land and about water resources, and a man as intelligent as you will see that the absolute position you are taking is flawed,” one user wrote. “What use is being rich if you cannot get access to water and food?”

Imagine saying “a man as intelligent as you” when talking about trump. Lol

[–] Aqivex@fedinsfw.app 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine saying “a man as intelligent as you” when talking about trump. Lol

If you listen really really closely, you'll get to hear what cognitive dissonance cracking sounds like.

They'll probably just patch the crack with ivermectin paste or something, but they're so close to realizing the grift, it's actually infuriating.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

They'll just watch fox news and see what they are supposed to think.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“I think what these companies have to do is take advantage of some of the federal deregulatory efforts that we’ve undertaken,” the US vice-president added. “If you build a datacenter, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out. And if that is happening, I don’t think the datacenters are that controversial. It’s when the utility bills get so much higher that’s when it’s a real problem.”

Ummm...except that all those "federal deregulatory efforts" mean they don't have to do any of that in order to build them. So they won't, of course. Why would they, when you've already given them the free-reign to do whatever they want?

How do these clowns have any supporters left, at this point?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Their supporters are stupid and hateful, but the Republicans keep telling them that they are special, and better than the people they hate

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What data centers are net energy negative? Maybe if they designed the building inefficiently large and then placed solar panels on the roof... Maybe. But I haven't seen any articles or papers or evidence of such a data center. Maybe some have on premise energy generators like natural gas but they are inherently less efficient than the state/federal/municipality ran ones which operate on a larger scale and enjoy the benefits of doing such.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe a combination data center and nuclear power plant? But that's totally speculative and probably has never even been seriously sketched out.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah two things everyone wants to live near

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile

https://disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb-sell-em-smarts/

These are outrageous statements. They try to exaggerate the power of the underlying technology to get us to focus our attention on science fictional scenarios over the real harms of how AI is being deployed. But few of them shook me as deeply as a statement from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at Blackrock’s US Infrastructure Summit in March.

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter,” said Altman, laying out an intensely dystopian future as just another business development. “One of the most important things in the future is that we make intelligence, to borrow an old phrase from the energy industry that didn’t quite work, ‘Too cheap to meter.’”

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's amazing. This guy is so out of touch he doesn't even understand how much he's sabotaging himself for the mid-terms.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] alapakala@quokk.au -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For the 61th time?
Will it remove BlackRock & Vanguard?

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How exactly are mutual funds the problem here? Red states banned local/state government funds from investing via BlackRock because it was considered too woke since they have a vested interest in the country lasting more than one quarter.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

mutual funds the problem here?

Interesting way to call the owners of the US. The problem is capitalism, and their booth won't end the robber baron’s might. 60 terms of slavery. And another, because you are a temporarily embarrassed “mutual fund.”

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For the 61th time?

Yes. Every time. Your voice should be heard.

If you choose, voluntarily, to exclude yourself from the democratic process, then of course it doesn't work for you. It can't. How can it work for you, if you do not participate?

The people who want you to not vote are the same people who want to take away the right to vote entirely.

[–] alapakala@quokk.au -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My voice is heard everytime I feed the homeless. Not when the Epstein class makes another voting booth. The fact you still believe there even is democracy on an oligarchy shows :amerikkka: indoctrination is working perfectly.

How can it work for you, if you do not participate?

Because it never has, it never will. Ballots are how you genocided the indigenous. Ballots is how you enslaved. I grow tired of countering your disinformation that you ever had a democracy, when it only suits slavers.

The people who want you to not vote are the same people who want to take away the right to vote entirely.

If this was true, the people that create ballots wouldn't campaign to demand people to go to voting booths. Instead voting would take decades to get everyone to vote. Yet you still ignore the people that can't make it to your booths.
Let us know when the incarcerated can vote, the indigenous, the enslaved, the children, and the migrants.
If you don't see the hypocrisy of ableing a class of tailored individuals only the right to vote, you have no say on what democracy is.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is it so important to you that others don’t vote? Your comment history is exhausting dude. Why are you so fixated on this?

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why is it so important to maintain electoralism?
I am a black anarchist.
How many more Red Scares do I have to face in order to be free?
Why can't you face the reality that ballots never translate material conditions improving for us?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Plus he's so bad at capitalism he thinks data centers give back to the local economy.

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't believe he thinks anything. I'm not joking. He's said before he doesn't have an internal monolog. I think this guy is legit a psychological zombie.

It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but sibling; It's not a duck.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

When communities are already poor, but you claim they will become poor.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I wish Trump had a list of his biggest donors taped to his forhead.

And a picture of the inauguration dinner on his suit.

Then the reasoning behind this would be obvious to his supporters...