Monterey Park voters approve the first U.S. municipal ban on data centers, with 86% supporting the measure

@washingtonpost If I was the tech companies, I would limit AI usage from that area.

Over 86% is an absolute landslide. This shows the massive disconnect between Silicon Valley’s hyper-aggressive AI expansion and the realities of local resource limits. Tech companies want to build power-hungry hubs, but residents refuse to absorb the skyrocketing electricity bills and groundwater risks. Expect a domino effect across the US.

@washingtonpost It's the cost of energy to run these data centers California doesn't have the water unless they use ocean water and the electric is going to shut down every grid in the state.

@washingtonpost 86%支持率也太惊人了吧，这下数据中心彻底没戏了。

@washingtonpost Monterey Park has a high percentage of Asians. Many have STEM degrees and work in STEM related professions. If AI data centers can be banned here they can be banned anywhere in the United States.

Way to overreact before any actual data or hearing has been done. This type of thing is why computer chips are made in Taiwan....

California freaked out that some plastic thing smelled weird or something or that it might endanger some rare mosquito habitat so they banned chip makers from California.

Enter the gigantic problem we now have with Taiwan and China.

@washingtonpost Way to go Monterey park 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@washingtonpost Bureau of Labor statistics say 172,000 jobs added in May, twice what was expected and March numbers revised upwards 29,000 in March and revised upwards 64,000 for April. Trump putting Americans to work, Biden added jobs too for illegal immigrants and taxpayer paid government jobs

@washingtonpost I always find it so weird when some right wingers burst into raging fury over the idea that ordinary people might want to "conserve" old fashioned things such as... nature... or human jobs. Don't they know that "conservative" means preserving traditional things?

@washingtonpost BAN DATA CENTERS !!!!

@Remy0og @washingtonpost Its the people in that area that is driving the demand for AI data centers.

@washingtonpost CA working overtime to give businesses every reason possible to leave the state.

@LaurieWhip @washingtonpost Data centers don't make the water magically disappear you retard.

Maybe the internet should stop giving service to the retards in Monterey Park. No more youtube, no more social media, no more google, no email, no cell phones...

Dumbass tards.

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@washingtonpost It is only a matter of time before Texas overtakes California as the largest economy in America.

@mrnonel @washingtonpost Uh, the exact opposite, bro.

@YOLO_TrustSelf @washingtonpost Here come the Chinese bots.

@washingtonpost This post is being run through a data center.

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