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    Sar Haribhakti on Framing Solar Farm Opposition

    Stripe AI Product Comms Lead Sar Haribhakti posted about framing of solar farm opposition.

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    Sar Haribhakti posted that calling opposition to solar farms simple environmentalism requires acknowledging coal plants are less unpopular. He added that labeling it NIMBYism requires acknowledging that three years ago Americans supported solar farm construction in their communities by three to one and nearly the same for another project. The post comes from the creator with 97k followers on tech Twitter who works as AI Product Comms Lead at Stripe after prior roles in fintech and VC comms.

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    @sarthakgh"If you call it simple environmentalism, you have to reckon with the fact that coal plants are less unpopular. If you call it NIMBYism, you need to reckon with the fact that just three years ago, Americans said they supported the construction of solar farms in their communities by three to one and nearly the same for wind farms. If you call it anti-corporate backlash, you need to reckon with the fact that support for nearby Amazon distribution centers was higher and that generic factories, semiconductor plants and even nuclear power plants all polled better than data centers, too. If you call it a turn against Silicon Valley or delayed payback for a decade or two of its broken promises, you have to account for the fact that Americans not only obsessively use tech products but also tend to view many of the big tech companies favorably. If you call it know-nothing tech derangement, you have to make sense of the relative popularity of computer chip fabrication plants. If you call it the paranoid style of American politics in the social media era, you have to explain how it could be that more than three-quarters of Americans got Covid shots in 2021 and how data center opposition is much larger than movements against earnest causes like fracking and fringier ones like opposition to 5G. If you call it the thinly felt politics of TikTok vibes and predict they’ll probably evaporate, you may be somewhat right. You still have to explain why no other recent cause has generated as tall a mountain of negative vibes. Like any mass populist movement, this one features echoes — and veterans — of others. But with data centers, something different, bigger and perhaps irreducible appears to be happening. Perhaps the better analogy is not with any movement of the social media era but with the long crusade against nuclear power, which managed to pull many threads of opposition together because nuclear plants’ iconic towers triggered, beyond political objections, apocalyptic ones, as well."

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    @sarthakgh"If you call it simple environmentalism, you have to reckon with the fact that coal plants are less unpopular. If you call it NIMBYism, you need to reckon with the fact that just three years ago, Americans said they supported the construction of solar farms in their communities by three to one and nearly the same for wind farms. If you call it anti-corporate backlash, you need to reckon with the fact that support for nearby Amazon distribution centers was higher and that generic factories, semiconductor plants and even nuclear power plants all polled better than data centers, too. If you call it a turn against Silicon Valley or delayed payback for a decade or two of its broken promises, you have to account for the fact that Americans not only obsessively use tech products but also tend to view many of the big tech companies favorably. If you call it know-nothing tech derangement, you have to make sense of the relative popularity of computer chip fabrication plants. If you call it the paranoid style of American politics in the social media era, you have to explain how it could be that more than three-quarters of Americans got Covid shots in 2021 and how data center opposition is much larger than movements against earnest causes like fracking and fringier ones like opposition to 5G. If you call it the thinly felt politics of TikTok vibes and predict they’ll probably evaporate, you may be somewhat right. You still have to explain why no other recent cause has generated as tall a mountain of negative vibes. Like any mass populist movement, this one features echoes — and veterans — of others. But with data centers, something different, bigger and perhaps irreducible appears to be happening. Perhaps the better analogy is not with any movement of the social media era but with the long crusade against nuclear power, which managed to pull many threads of opposition together because nuclear plants’ iconic towers triggered, beyond political objections, apocalyptic ones, as well."