[drivingmenuts]

If you're wealthy, it's not a problem because you probably won't have a data center next to you. If you're poor, you're screwed.

Those data centers require a ton of extra power infrastructure and the costs of those get front-loaded on the consumers already in the area, driving up their rates. The data centers get tax breaks because they can afford to buy the politicians, who get to claim progress and a bunch of other things that the poor won't see in their lifetimes, nor will their descendants. The progress and its outcomes might benefit society as a whole, in some small way, but the cost to society in terms of economic and environmental destruction will never be borne by the wealthy and will never equalize out because income disparity never lessens.

We're already starting to see some of the effect in lost jobs because business owners see AI as a replacement for technical labor. The people who are losing their jobs aren't being retrained and are becoming the equivalent of modern day coal-miners.

Meanwhile, their energy costs are rising to subsidize a data center that will be used to run an AI that will replace them and the owners will get richer.

But hey, at least the data center isn't in their backyard.

[twoodfin]

NoVA is one of the richest areas of the entire country and is loaded with data centers.

[Karrot_Kream]

You can make this argument for any industrial building.

[xboxnolifes]

Yeah, and it would be equally valid.