Social media posts decry AI data centers as self-inflicted damage to public support, claiming Americans now prefer nuclear plants nearby and showing images of threatened landscapes in Breezewood, Pennsylvania

DATA CENTER DOOMERS: Secretary Burgum reported that the intelligence community has traced much of the opposition to data centers to foreign influence campaigns aimed at slowing American technological progress. The strategy appears to be working.

The key to making people like AI data centers is to tell people they're stupid for not liking them

Decel Bureaucratic sabotage of AI datacenters hurts the American people and our nation's prosperity and independence

“Americans are now more comfortable living near a nuclear power plant than an AI data center” -@RachelBitecofer

The AI oligarchs took a winning hand, and with a mixture cigarette-industry level greed and tone-deaf insensitivity, utterly screwed the pooch.

A tale for the ages.

Can we all agree that Dario played the “Ooh! AI scary!” card one time too many?

@amuse Give us one reason we should put making us all unemployed a priority.

@amuse I'm American. I don't want data centers. The portion of the population that does is minuscule. Data Republican made a good point. If they can fund the build, they can fund power plants to power them and water recapture filter systems to minimize the draw on water supplies.

@amuse There’s no need to disparage those who have questions by claiming they fell for foreign campaigns. I’m in Utah, a miner, and have some legitimate questions about Stratos. Virtually nothing is known except its proposed size and that it’s been rammed through with no information.

@amuse I'm an American. Data centers should produce their own electricity, recycle and filter the water they use and insulate to prevent the noise pollution they make. Put them in the industrial parks where they belong instead of farmland or residential areas.

i love slopaganda

it's actually very pure

@amuse they’re being built by illegals while locals are told jobs are for them, and unless we speak up same way about this then this entire movement is fake and ghey.

“but but but my fake economy that i let tech bros convince me into!”

are we saving the Country from invaders or not?

for the facts, courtesy @RachelBitecofer:

@amuse @lsferguson Secretary Burgum needs to speak with Americans. The concern has zero to do with “foreign influence”. It has everything to do with water

@amuse Some of the opposition is when they come in heavy-handed with eminent domain to remove people from their homes/land, or when they don't provide their own electricity and drain the public grid, or when they don't supply their own water. Otherwise, who cares?

@amuse The doomed are the ones who are saying how great it would be to have all our jobs taken away.

Even if the data centers work Will it be worth it if we have poisonous water in the aquifers?

and who will buy the products if we’re just given an allowance like children?

@amuse Trump screwed the pooch with trying to scare Americans about China 🤷‍♀️

@vjeannek I think Americans would be very smart to be scared of China. They play the long game and are pumping billions into our economy to create dissent around our economic and technological development.

@ChiefEngineerCE The uncomfortable truth is that AI is making everyone more productive. Those embracing AI as a tool (not a replacement) are able to accomplish far more than any human has been able to accomplish before. At the end of the day, like it or not, Ai is going to make you busier.

@amuse How are all these data centers suddenly happening at lightning speed? It should take a very long time to plan and get approval,etc of dych large projects.