FUCK AI data centers.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
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These companies are "too big to fail." Just like last time, when the bottom drops out on these bad investments the debt will be socialized.
My theory is they want the democrats to win so they can come hat in hand to congress and ask for bailouts for this totally not essential and speculative industry.
also the fact that the ai chips wont be operational until a few years later, by then the AI models are all outdated.
Its not a monolith, older models are still useful because they're less intensive and so more efficient for certain tasks. Those older models will likely still run fine on outdated hardware.
A lot of people imagine hardware that has been outdated as immediate e-waste. It sounds stupid because it would be stupid.
If only these data centers held the information that would have told them they were being the asshole.
All that means is that the bribes will have to be bigger. It's the socialism of the wealthy.
That people were dropping their shorts i the first place is a bad sign.
The ubiquity of NSAs signed by government officials shows the entrenched degree of corruption. The companies and officials alike should be charged with crimes.
Not only that but they know people don't want them and they not only allow it but then also give them tax breaks. So the data center owners aren't even paying taxes to improve the community. All these assholes do is take
AI tech is the 'best' weapon of mass destruction yet.
Might get back into paintball
What a weird sequence of sentences to describe that no one likes data centers
people aren’t dropping their shorts…
cracks are forming…
Cracks are appearing would have been funnier.
Clearly the author didn’t have the vision we have lol
Crack spread eh
Its divisive lol
A big crack...
Indeed lol
That's exactly what I thought. Like wow, that part is in the headline? Lol
Lol, exactly. Someone was feeling frisky writing that headline lol.
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Turns out a business plan consisting of »build a trillion dollars of server farms now, figure out who pays later« gets slightly less charming once the lenders ask for actual numbers. The AI industry wanted to disrupt every profession except the ancient art of checking whether the math works.
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