A survey found rural Americans are mostly worried that new AI data centers will impact their bottom line. Some politicians are starting to hear them.
  • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
    20 days

    If rural America weren’t such terrible people, I’d have pity.

    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
      19 days

      Because none of the pollution or impact of these datacenters will ever impact anybody else, the heat knows every single one of those rural americans is a fascist and will exclusively make their lives worse, leaving those civilised people that live in the cities unharmed. /s

      Literally the same attitude as “I dont care about climate change, if the sea level rises I’ll be fine because I don’t live near the coast.”

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        19 days

        You can care about minimizing data center construction because of pollution etc., and not give a shit about people that it coincidentally affects in a more direct way than you. These are not mutually exclusive opinions.