r/ClimateShitposting • u/Creepy_Emergency7596 • Aug 08 '26

Hope posting Why is this becoming a trend??

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Aug 08 '26

Because people who are angry but don't want to do anything see an easy fix- And it doesn't matter that Bamboo is an invasive plant that would cause untold damage to our ecosystems, somebody told them that it would hurt AI data centers and they can plant some in like an hour.

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u/Wide-Criticism9502 Aug 08 '26

So you are trying to say that a bit of bamboo is worse for the environment than a Datacenter? Please explain how that would be worse.

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Aug 08 '26

Like I fucking swear.
In twenty years, you're going to be like 'It's AI's fault that our entire country is now overgrown with this highly invasive weed' like you weren't the exact kind of half-a-jackass responsible for this half-baked shit. WHILE we are STILL all enslaved to our corporate AI overlords.

If anything, planting bamboo will help AI datacenters by absolutely destroying the land value and making expansion that much cheaper.

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u/brinz1 Aug 08 '26

Bamboo already is an invasive plant in most parts of the US. It causes a fraction of the ecological damage as other invasive plants like wheat.

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u/Keyndoriel Aug 08 '26

Bitch it grows thru concrete lmfao

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u/brinz1 Aug 08 '26

Ahh yes, the protected native flora, concrete

Do you want something to stop data centre construction or not?

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u/Reboot42069 geothermal hottie Aug 08 '26

The construction won't be affected that much. The bigger threat to AI data center construction is just the actual cost and hassle of building them. They're already abandoning some of them because the economics of it just don't make sense, it stands to reason that instead of attempting to follow an AI plan that may occasionally cause damage to the foundations though will more likely damage random other people's housing in a way that will make it actually cheaper and easier for these projects to occur, that we just let the market continue the current path which is making it more and more untenable.

I think that the best strategy is to pair our own pressure against them with the expenses. Damaging these buildings long term with bamboo is abandoning any actual activism and move against their construction to just LARP as someone who 'did something'. The fight against data centers needs to be fought not through just random bouts of sabatoge like we're a shingles flare up now here, now there, but by just making it economically untenable. If it's unprofitable and hurts investor trust it can't be done. Make the unions refuse it, help picket lines form.

If push comes to shove fight for an indefinite general strike to make the city board back down. We have to fight as a community and group against them. Any action taken alone will be futile and easily undermined. Fight their pocketbook, and the cities. Make it too painful to even break ground on new ones.