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.
    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4 months

      Generally I agree with this sentiment, but did either American party campaign for AI data centers and/or technological deregulation in 2024? I suspect Trump may have, but I kind of doubt it. I always thought the Dems were the ones who wanted to push the tech industry. Now I think both of them do (maybe different companies/industries but they both wanna cash those checks).

  • tinkerings@piefed.zipEnglish
    4 months

    You should consider this a win. All the channels of news and “truth” they’re seeing are hijacked. The fact that this concern is cutting through is a ray of hope that maybe they’ll start to see some of the other horrible crap going on around them and in part based on their voting decisions.

    -“rural American” that’s constantly looking around going “wake up! You’re being lied to!”

  • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
    4 months

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

    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4 months

      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
        4 months

        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.