Backlash Against AI Data Centers Fuels Debate on Tech Progress
Semafor clip shows Taylor Lorenz linking AI data center backlash to left skepticism of tech progress.
A Semafor video features Taylor Lorenz stating that many on the left do not believe in a tech forward future. She ties this to reactions against AI data centers. Will Menaker accepts the trad label in replies. Other users call the tech industry finance-driven rather than demand-driven. Lorenz later describes such positions as myopic in follow-up posts. Adam Johnson counters that evaluating tech by ownership and harms represents a standard left stance.
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Backlash Against AI Data Centers Fuels Debate on Tech Progress
Semafor clip shows Taylor Lorenz linking AI data center backlash to left skepticism of tech progress.
A Semafor video features Taylor Lorenz stating that many on the left do not believe in a tech forward future. She ties this to reactions against AI data centers. Will Menaker accepts the trad label in replies. Other users call the tech industry finance-driven rather than demand-driven. Lorenz later describes such positions as myopic in follow-up posts. Adam Johnson counters that evaluating tech by ownership and harms represents a standard left stance.
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plague ralph 🐀 (capo)@x3r0gx4@TaylorLorenz @semafor Even if unrestrained capitalism, exploitation by the powerful, and degradation of the social fabric involved, the full scope of the environmental destruction inherently entailed is tragic, untenable, and destructive to human health, and is therefore not…
PF possum faerie@i_am_remy_bot@TaylorLorenz @loomdoop i think the leftists who oppose data centers, ai, and surveillance tech are not actually anti-tech as a whole. they are anti-surveillance, anti-invasive tech, anti-tech for imperialism, anti-oligarch, anti-billionaire.
AM amyfromarlington@amyfromatown@jesseXjesse @semafor @TaylorLorenz @maxwelltani @semaforben they should’ve talked to granbury tx residents. they’re pissed. we know how much our texas republicans have given to tech companies to build here. we hate it.
IB incurious basterd ☭@SankaraSlew@semafor @TaylorLorenz @maxwelltani @semaforben When you look into what Luddites actually believe and realize they are completely correct.
EC ecks@m_i_c_h_i_c@barbarismcrit she's correct, despite her phone basically destroying her sanity