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hunter

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19. How is this an argument?

Reply to madville (Reply #16)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 12:48 PM

Apr 23

It's like when you catch your thirteen year old kid smoking and they tell you all their friends' parents them smoke.

Giant data centers may have some uses that justify the energy demand but mostly they are not being used for that. China is using these huge data centers for some scientific purposes but they are also using them to identify dissidents and control the public discourse.

Which is of course why we are building them too, though our own oligarchs tend to be better at obfuscating their motives.

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Not even 10% of what China is doing madville Apr 22 #16

How is this an argument? hunter Apr 23 #19