One of the increasingly hot button issues nationwide is AI data centers that consume enormous amounts of electricity and water to run. The impacts on local communities have brought about a grassroots movement across parties to stop them. But, 10 weeks before the mid-term elections, the reckless and corrupt Malignant Fascist hasn't gotten the memo and continues to promote them. From Politico:
"The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond.
Those worries have deepened in recent weeks as politicians across the political spectrum embraced various curbs on data center construction, with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, potential Democratic White House hopeful Josh Shapiro and Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers being among the latest to sign on. [snip]
'AI is going to be a massive issue for the presidential election in a way that technology has never been an issue,' a representative from a major AI company told POLITICO, adding: 'Nobody wants to lose their job and they’re already feeling squeezed while these very, very rich people who are richer than anything we have ever seen in the history of Earth are making more. And I think people are sick and tired of that.'
The person, like others quoted in this story, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the industry’s political strategy.The swiftness and ferocity of the backlash has caught the tech industry on the backfoot, where it’s struggled to find an effective message that assuages voters’ worries that data centers will raise their power bills, hog their water supplies and blight the landscape." (our emphasis)
Greedy and detached tech bro oligarchs like Zuckerberg are proposing bribes to local communities to get them on board with his and other data centers. (It wouldn't be surprising, given big tech's swing to the MF's camp, that the MF also offers financial incentives to communities to host his tech supporters' massive and unpopular projects). But the impact on voters going to the polls has MAGAt politicians very worried that once again, the MF has undermined their chances. So keep promoting AI data centers, clown.
(photo: Very Stable Genius points to what's clearly not a data center)
