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Could be some astroturfing, but compared with fears of drag queen storytellers and wind farms, there is a lot of sentiment ready to be mobilized here. Externalities of data centers on this scale, and the outright lying on what's going on by their builders, are already visible. If there was astroturfing available we'd see the Koch brothers et al ramp up in favor of this, get Tea Party rabble-rousers to insist on data centers. Let's see how China deals with the impact on their land and water too.

I'm glad you're not tinfoil-hat inclined!

[yellowapple]

It seems maybe I should be prepping the tinfoil after all, if OpenAI is to be believed (given their material interests, their claims should of course be taken with a datacenter-sized grain of salt): https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-...