So are you saying they should have voted for data centers? Because I don't want them to vote for data centers, even if they're a bunch of hypocrites about it.

We live in a system wherein our survival is gate kept by oligopolistic technology, energy, and health insurance corporations.

One can very much oppose the expansion of data centers while also using Claude all day to build software, because if you don't, you will lose your livelihood to someone who will. The problem isn't the technology, it's how it insanely disempowers workers in the labor market vs capital.

Until we have a durable solution for that along with the externalities that data centers impose on their localities, there is nothing hypocritical about using LLMs while voting to bring them to heel in the interest of the many over the interests of the few.

The city I live in is currently struggling with the issue that decades ago they banned ugly cell towers, but it turned out that resulted in a lot of dead zones for cell coverage in town, and now people are complaining about that.

I enjoy eating meat, but I don't support everything thea meat industry does, does that make me a hypocrit?

The fact that I enjoy social use social media and AI, even though I have complicated feelings about the ethics of the companies building them, including the impact of expansion of data centers. This doesn't have to be all or nothing!

"Yet you participate in society, curious! I'm very intelligent."

One of the nice things about living in a rich country is the ability to externalise certain costs.

Exactly. We need a word for this common mixture of naïveté, hypocrisy, and small-mindedness.

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