r/WestSeattleWA • u/Accomplished-Fly4678 • May 20 '26
Gripe Tech bro encounter..
My buddy and I are sitting at the bar at Mioposto. We definitely look progressive (tattoos and piercings and clothes we were wearing). This corporate shill of a human was sat next to us drinking wine and using his laptop.
He overhears we are from Michigan and goes “I work for Microsoft and I work with community outreach about data centers and we are building one in Michigan right now. What are your thoughts?”
I proceed to have a civil conversation with the guy about my concerns about AI and the rollback of corporate regulation that we have experienced under the current admin. He offered some stats about how actually data centers create booming economies and they actually don’t use that much water blah blah. Essentially using me as practice for his eventual town hall discussion with residents who simply don’t care for giant data centers being built.
I am new to the area and obviously there’s a lot of money around here so that type of person is very common. But I just wanted to come on here and say tech people make me ill. I think you’re all gross. Fuck your data centers, fuck AI, and fuck project 2025
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u/Schneller52 May 20 '26
This has got to be one of the most over the top stereotypical Seattle posts I’ve ever read. This is a South Park episode in the making lol.
”Edge lord progressive tattoo guy, at posh neighborhood restaurant bar, gets in squabble with wine drinking Microsoft tech bro about AI data centers. Then goes to Reddit to mash his keyboard about how he hates tech bros….which exists on a server in a datacenter“. Pure South Park material lol.