Pretty sure it’s mostly data centers that are fueling America’s data center rage: My bills have skyrocketed and these fuckers got sweetheart deals on everything from power supply to totally avoiding any accountability for fucking up the environment, all to make rich, corrupt assholes richer.
Oh, and the power companies? Also brazenly corrupt.
Plenty that we all can and should criticize China about, but this is bullshit.
Yes. Worth asking “who benefits from framing opposition to data centers as dastardly foreign influence?”
The original article is from Axios. They do point out that there’s organic opposition, but the title is definitely sensational and arguably disinformation.
Now, even if they actually are adding extra to the conversation, there’s still plenty of people unhappy about data centers. If foreign bots were adding noise to the Cornell case, does that invalidate what happened to Jane Doe?
We see the videos from town halls, we see the pictures of the water, we hear the recordings of the noise pollution. We see all the extra infrastructure that sometimes cuts through people’s property.
There are legitimate concerns that people want to be addressed.
Yeah “fuelling the fire” is absolutely wrong. You don’t get the kind of spontaneous grass roots action across the country with any amount of social media activism. The headline is straight up misinformation.
Maybe “fanning the flames” would be acceptable, but, honestly, why even spend the time to write an article about a butterfly flapping its wings in China when talking about a hurricane in Texas.
Yahoo News is owned by this terrifyingy acquisitive asset company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha?wprov=sfla1
Don’t see any AI ownership, but they sure have a vested interest in avoiding the stock crash that’s coming.
… you linked the hindu god
Bwahaha. Yes, that was a link from another comment…
Here’s the Apollo Group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Global_Management?wprov=sfla1
Though it seems the original source is Axios, so this could just be usual AI news chum.
including 200 accounts “posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy,” the team said in a tweet.
200 accounts is fucking nothing…
Claiming that is “fueling” anything makes as much sense as me saying the 1992 Dream Team won Olympic Basketball because Spike Lee watched from his couch in NYC.
It might have happened, but it didn’t change the result
