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‘Cost Me the Election’: Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

And uses up all the power, making water and power far more expensive, and they'll use that data center to replace jobs with AI, and surveill us so they can put us in concentration camps.

We are totally aware of the downsides of the data centers, and also aware that the primary reason they want them is to get even richer at OUR expense.

The answer is NO! And if you don't like that answer, we can make it more emphatic in many ways, which the wealthy really don't want to experience. I suspect that we'll have to have several examples before they'll truly understand. Luigi was one. There will be others.