We still have a lot of work ahead of us. Sentiment is increasingly turning against AI.
There are movements opposing data centers, and now AI in general; resentment is growing.
While there are undoubtedly legitimate concerns - such as fears of job losses and rising energy prices - much of this is simply resentment that needs to be addressed through education and awareness-raising.
Many users dismiss conservative protests against AI data centers as self-interested hostility or luddite ignorance, while others view the backlash as normal for successful tech and praise AI as a helpful tool.
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https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/conservatives-protest-ai-data-centers
We still have a lot of work ahead of us. Sentiment is increasingly turning against AI.
There are movements opposing data centers, and now AI in general; resentment is growing.
While there are undoubtedly legitimate concerns - such as fears of job losses and rising energy prices - much of this is simply resentment that needs to be addressed through education and awareness-raising.
@kimmonismus maybe we should stop talking about ai like its a demigod here to replace us
maybe its just a fun lil goblin helper that makes our lives better
@kimmonismus @grok its not just conservatives .Its labor union too .They pitted them against each other using the same covid scare tatics remove covid and covid jab and insert AI and Ai Dooming and tbere you go
@kimmonismus People 👏🏻 don’t 👏🏻really care 👏🏻about the stupid fucking jobs.
As a species we’ve abstracted survival so much that we aren’t asking the right questions.
@kimmonismus None of this is organic, it’s almost certainly driven by China to try to slow down American AI
@kimmonismus "But if you dont let us do whatever we want with no commitment to anyones future but our own, its the apocalypse" is the argument to justify it all. No wonder its being opposed. Gold rush mentality with tailing piles burying everyone this time.
@kimmonismus No amount of education is enough. Practical immersion is the only way. Those who do not understand will cling to the simplified understanding.
We just have to move forward, one step at a time.
@kimmonismus Tbh having had many conversations with modern luddites, no amount of convincing or “educating” will sway them. This kind of talk just hardens them against the technology.
Some people are a lost cause
@kimmonismus "Conservatives" nationwide, lol, what. Media is a joke. Most conservatives that I know are the exact opposite and most liberals I know are anti AI Data Centers. I dont think you can fit this into an overall political alignment. Just a bunch of doomers doing dooming things.
@kimmonismus You have joined the obtuse.
The leaders of the AI companies and entrepreneurism cheerleader @PeterDiamandis repeatedly say AI is going to take all jobs very soon AND will require multiples more energy. Eric Schmidts words.
How do you expect the public to react?
@kimmonismus This kind of reaction is quite common. When machines replaced traditional handicraft workshops in the past, those weavers also opposed it.
@kimmonismus AI has an adoption problem, not just an education problem.
@kimmonismus It is the companies fault tbh 😭
Dario out here saying we're all fucking dead because Mythos is gonna hack your grandmas car and make it crash lol
@kimmonismus Because when people's oxen get gored they tend to react with extreme hostility.
Not out of high-minded principles. Strictly self interest.
@kimmonismus People were saying the same about the internet in the 90s tbf. The backlash is real but it's mostly aimed at how it's being rolled out, not the tech itself. Fix the dodgy energy deals and the job displacement fears and half the resentment probably disappears 🤔
@ponzibaron @kimmonismus pro goblin sentiment
I think AI should be limited audience and highly regulated so it doesn't cause mass layoffs. But there's literally no point in me wasting my breath on that. Nobody in power cares, so!!
I started training all my peoples on it and forcing them to use it in march of last year when Opus hit. If it's inevitable then embrace it with full force, run down there and hijack that shit and use it in anger. Because fuck it, when in Rome...
@kimmonismus Calling job loss fears and rising energy prices "legitimate concerns" and then filing the rest under resentment that needs "education" is a pretty convenient way to dismiss the parts of the backlash that are actually about power concentration and who captures the upside
@kimmonismus Total people against AI was always bigger. Only 5% of AI users are willing to pay for AI.
@hopefulaiguy @kimmonismus So AI doesn't cut jobs? Are you retarded?
