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https://archive.ph/2026.11.05-224738/https://www.ft.com/content/32fd4450-5880-437d-9bd9-df13289ada24
The US midterm elections — in which voters elected anti-data centre governors in Texas, Georgia and Ohio and passed 38 local votes in favour of restrictions on their development — have forced the tech industry to reflect on its failure to connect with the public.
“The reason is not that people are Luddites . . . it’s much like the protests against the masks in Covid. It has become a political symbol,” said Vik Bajaj, co-chief executive of the Jeff Bezos-backed AI start-up Prometheus.
. . . “As a profession, we have spent two years pretty dangerously telling people that AI will change the future of work for the worse — that they will be out of jobs, that their children will be out of jobs, their grandchildren will live in a world that’s unrecognisable. And then for the last year or so, we’ve also been flirting with the idea that it’s an existential crisis.”
“I think this election was a big wake-up call . . . to take a pause and think about what’s happening and approach this in a way that’s maybe a little more thoughtful,” said John Hanke, founder of Niantic Spatial, the AI world model company and gaming group that made Pokémon Go. “It’s been go, go, go, build, build, build, and some of that has been . . . with head buried in sand.”
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Good. Let their fingers be burned right off if need be. Those vast data centers are to be used to facilitate oppression, not to improve the quality of life of anyone but (maybe) billionaires.
There was never a fucking “boom” just a lot of stupid money being thrown at the latest gamble, rather than investing in the boring, predictable things we know makes life better for people right now.
Something something invisible hand of the market.
Oh noes! Did the trillionaires’ playtime pretend investments never happen? Oh, poor trillionaires. Maybe they can just hop into a dick-rocket and get the fuck off our planet instead.
will of the people threatening all with less horribleness.
Good.
Seems to be good-news-friday
“Backlash against unwanted resource hogs threatens our pocketbook.”
That’s what they mean.
Eeey, it’s Mr. Dong Lover
“My community is destroying my hopes of ever building my pollution factories!”
Any time you start forcefully shoving shit down someone’s throat there will be a backlash. In the recent old days you had to back everything up with facts, show whether it is beneficial or not and detail the economy of moving forward. Now it’s just Yosemite Sam with guns-a-blazing!
Want some tulips? I can ship you some in 2 months time. Better buy now, to be sure you are the one who gets them.
No thanks. If you’re making a point, it’s way beyond me to grasp. Tulips are pretty and colourful though.
likely referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Onward the Butlerian Jihad!
This sounds like a win for homeowners power bills…infinite growth projections for these projects was ludicrous levels of stupidity.
“The fact that my business model doesn’t work is an unfair threat to my business model!”
Good.
