Also, poor people are likely to already encounter a massive polluter or nuisance being dropped around there for no benefit to them.
Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days agoThe rich are also more educated. Lemmy hates AI, but other upper-middle-class types might just see it as a big box full of cool technology.
To plumbers and cashiers, it’s more of a new-fangled abomination we don’t need.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
Yeah, past experiences with the next great thing that actually turns out to be meh may very well be part of it. Especially if it’s an older person.
The whole “wifi causes cancer” thing is still out there too, and might be conflated with a datacenter.
gens@programming.dev 6 days ago
Being more educated doesn’t make llms more useful. Being less educated doesn’t make them less fun.
Problem with them is the magnitude of the push vs their usefulness. There was no need for that massive of scaling. It’s all “we must get all the investor money before we have to raise prices to become profitable”.
If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
No, but appreciating what a big generic building does could require education.
Yes, they’re definitely designed and built by illiterate cavemen. /s
Like, obviously you know engineers do that, and are educated and well compensated. It seems like you’ve drifted off to a different argument here.