Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1424047/americans-views-of-data-centers-have-turned-more-negative

What I dislike is the lumping of all datacenters into one hated bucket. I suspect people don’t realize that, for example, the fediverse… exists in datacenters. Take away datacenters and the entire internet goes away.

I think what people don’t want is a bunch of shitty datacenters (meaning using shitty power sources, for example) that are being built for AI or massive government/private data over-reach.

You WANT some datacenters…

This is like being against… prepared food. Sure, cooking from scratch is better, but outlaw all prepared foods and now you will be exhausted cooking every single day. We depend on some prepared foods. What we want is less added sugar, more healthy prepared foods, safer food, at a lower cost. We want improvements, not a complete ban.

Same with datacenters.

With how fast big tech moves to break things there‘s no time for nuance. I‘m not being sarcastic or anything. I‘m serious. We genuinely don‘t need all that computing power. It makes live only harder instead of improving it at this point because it‘s mostly used to replace us in the job market and spy on us in our free time. So yeah, fight every single data center. Fuck nuance.

Fuck nuance.

This attitude is fucking toxic. How do you think we got here? Black & white absolutism. Dumbass right-wing assholes who listen to propaganda garbage and think a 2-minute uncritical explanation of a subject is gospel, because fuck nuance, right?

These are the same dipshits who hate transpeople because “it wasn’t around 30 years ago, so it must be wrong”, and “it didn’t happen to me, so these people are just crazy”, and other fucked-up explanations. Because fuck nuance, right?

Don’t stoop to that level. We’re smart than that.