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patphil

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3. Can you imagine what could be done if even half those data centers were hospitals, schools, or affordable housing?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat May 9, 2026, 05:21 PM

12 hrs ago

We don't need 4000 data centers sucking up all the resources from the surrounding area.
We got along without them in the past, we can do without them now and going forward for the foreseeable future.
These things don't help people, they're just profit centers for tech boys and the ultra rich.
If I had to choose between AI projects and people projects....there's no doubt I choose people every time.

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Data Centers Creep into Rural America [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago OP

I don't understand the need or purpose of these huge "data" centers. Are they to increase gov monitoring of the public? wcmagumba 12 hrs ago #1

Very likely sakabatou 12 hrs ago #2

Can you imagine what could be done if even half those data centers were hospitals, schools, or affordable housing? patphil 12 hrs ago #3

This genAI bubble has caused a catastrophic loss of resources, in addition to all the direct harm done highplainsdem 9 hrs ago #8

Maybe that will take the starch out of rural America. Aristus 11 hrs ago #4

Local County Politicos need to use it for their advantage. Jacson6 11 hrs ago #5

Feeding the monster that will eventually destroy us all, just ask Musk. Maybe humans aren't all that intelligent OGBuzz 11 hrs ago #6

These data centers are being built because of generative AI, not the truly useful non-generative Ai highplainsdem 9 hrs ago #7

If the DNC doesn't have campaign workers in every effected community Prairie Gates 9 hrs ago #9

Not just rural voters. These data centers are a suburban problem too newdeal2 8 hrs ago #10