[miiiiiike]

Is that all you have? Calling people sociopaths?

No, I feel a great deal of empathy for and solidarity with my neighbors. Enough that I’ll argue for acting in our self-interest even if it’s unpopular.

And what do you do when your neighbors are being mislead? When their fears, anxieties, and hardships are being exploited by demagogues attempting to consolidate their power by whipping them up into an unthinking emotional frenzy?

For this region, for this site, the property tax boon from a data center would far outweigh any negative impacts and any other industrial activity would be more harmful to the environment and less beneficial to the community.

I’m one person. I vote yes. Everyone gets a vote as well. I’m going to make my case.

[pesus]

It 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.

[miiiiiike]

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?