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Rural Americans say they're worried AI data centers will drain their wallets
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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If rural America weren’t such terrible people, I’d have pity.
Because none of the pollution or impact of these datacenters will ever impact anybody else, the heat knows every single one of those rural americans is a fascist and will exclusively make their lives worse, leaving those civilised people that live in the cities unharmed. /s
Literally the same attitude as "I dont care about climate change, if the sea level rises I'll be fine because I don't live near the coast."
You can care about minimizing data center construction because of pollution etc., and not give a shit about people that it coincidentally affects in a more direct way than you. These are not mutually exclusive opinions.
Good thing rural data centers are only used for mass surveillance and data-collection on rural Americans.
As long as we keep the urbanized AI data centers out of the cities, we should be good.
Look, absolutely fuck them rednecks but that's not how it works. Well, I guess states could have their own 'great firewall'. But as long as traffic cams, flock, ble scanning beacons and satellites exist its not looking great
I'm pretty sure you dun wooshd
Saracasm isn't transferred through text, just assumed