alt Hacker NewsIt wasn't directed at you personally, but I think the fact that you dismiss opposition to data centers/AI as "fears, anxieties, and hardships" [...] "being exploited by demagogues attempting to consolidate their power" does reinforce my point. So does dismissing people's concerns as an "emotional frenzy". Ironically, that applies far more towards what the AI companies are working towards.
Pointing out that others are exploiting their “fears, anxieties, or hardships” is not the same as dismissing those concerns. Nor is saying that people who have been intentionally whipped into an emotional frenzy an inditement of the people moved to that emotional state.
It’s an inditement of the people who used misinformation to bring people to that point.
I’m not dismissing their fears. Furthest thing from it.
I’m going out of my way to allay their fears by citing local circumstances and pointing out the potential benefits of development.
The loudest voices against have used hypothetical hyperscale data centers built in the desert as a model. Or exclusively talking about the Musk data centers.
I am not unclear: Data centers should not directly run on fossil fuels or the souls of orphans.
But on nuclear? Why not?