We have had these warnings since the days of the luddites, but this time could it be different:
“In the long term, I think AI will end up doing everything and make me and many others irrelevant.”
Another says: “It kind of feels like I’m coming to work every day to [put myself out of a job"
Meanwhile we have organized opposition to data centers. A way to delay or stop AI adoption.
Hold a hearing on say zoning change to allow data centers and expect bus loads of outsiders to show up to speak against. Data centers pay significant property taxes and have good jobs. Attractive in small often dying communities where the young leave to find jobs. Voters should decide if they want it. Not professional opponents.
To speak should be required to show id to prove you live in the community.
There’s so much silliness here, I don’t know where to start…
There are lots of reasons to oppose data centers. They suck up natural resources, raise energy prices, pollute the environment and pose an additional threat to those wanting an egalitarian economy. With so many reasons to oppose them, it’s no wonder people are coming from far and wide in opposition!
Are bus loads of outsiders showing up at local meetings? I’ll admit, I don’t watch crazy tech-bro propaganda, so I’m not in the loop.
Many data centers receive very generous property tax exemptions for 10, 15, 20, 30 years. Here’s one that’s been in the news - Project Jupiter.
“A New Mexico county last week advanced a massive data center project that calls for an eye-popping $165 billion of taxable industrial revenue bonds as a way to access tax breaks, one of the latest local governments to offer generous incentives to tech companies racing to build the facilities across the country.”
"The building boom carries credit implications for governments that house the centers. Many cities and states looking to capitalize on the economic development are offering generous tax breaks, structured in some cases with IRBs, as in New Mexico, or as straightforward exemptions on property and sales taxes, with the latter usually applied to construction materials and data center equipment.
The tax breaks can add up to hundreds of millions of dollars over the often decades-long life of the incentive programs. In addition to the lost revenue, local and state governments are grappling with the centers’ massive demand for power and water that is pressuring local resources, driving up costs and becoming a flashpoint for local political opposition."
https://archive.ph/smQaI#selection-2805.0-2805.312
All of that for dozens of jobs!
What makes opposition “professional”? Was MLK a “professional” opponent? Organization doesn’t necessarily mean there’s some dark conspiracy pulling the strings. Take a few drops of methylene blue and breeeaaathe…
What’s that guy thinking? If he was smart he’d be spending his millions on funding terrible documentaries featuring the first family…
Fake outrage is the lamest kind of outrage.
Show me a credible link.
Soros’ brilliant and successful rape of the over-valued pound made it a certainty that every proto-anitsemite in the world would include him in their fantasies of left wing nefariousness.
I have been organizing bus loads of protestors and campaign workers since 1966. The fantasies I have heard woven….
Is the Daily Caller credible? If not, I’ve got nothin’. Lots of the uproar has to do with billionaires funding organizations who are involved in the protests. It’s almost like these outraged snowflakes haven’t ever heard of rich people funding organizations they believe in. Then that turns into them paying people, them bussing people in, and finally…them cloning soulless protestors in a lab, only to unleash them at will whenever and wherever they want.
Booyah! People with morals want to do something about injustice. They often feel powerless until they organize. Organization requires money. A lot of people with money are willing to fund them.
The narrative about Soros is weak, and as you said, based almost entirely on antisemitic hurt feelings.
Soros and these other woke (con cariño) billionaires are no different than the wealthy suffragists who funded their movement, the liberal philanthropic organizations that funded the civil rights movement, or the major corporations pouring money into the BLM movement.