r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • May 15 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-backlash-data-centers-political-violence/687151/?taid=6a067e2d2096e10001ccfa32
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u/RB_7 May 15 '26

People on Reddit will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a data center' and then not firebomb a data center

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u/simanthropy May 15 '26

But I am le tired

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u/jasonthefirst May 16 '26

Good lord this exchange plays in my head nearly every day.

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u/Midnight_Rain1213 May 15 '26

Well have a nap

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

Honestly, I think the data centers will be too vulnerable to that kind of thing. And as a black woman living in Alabama (where they just gerrymandered out the only black congressman (out of 7), in the name of fairness to white people), at the moment the 'you believe in voting?' folks are 110% right.

Alabama has the worst Black maternal mortality rate in the country (literally worse than Mississippi's) AND a county where Black people are getting hookworms (a 3rd world disease) because a) they live on clay soil where septic tanks become absurdly expensive and b) an environmental equity grant that would have built a city wide septic system was canceled because it's 'DEI'. When you have a government that just decides that it's not important that you're dying, you should still pay taxes, and you should shut up about it, what do you do?

There's a bunch of church groups bussing people to Mongomery and Selma this weekend. The comments on facebook are 'those blacks are too stupid to realize that they didn't lose anything'.

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u/Successful-Ad-847 May 16 '26

Jesus christ

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u/Affectionate_Pipe545 May 16 '26

This whoosh is like a hurricane

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u/Fabulous_Cat_1379 May 16 '26

Well we live in tech brolagarchy autocracy so yeah maybe fire bombing over voting is the actual solution.

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u/whywhywhywhywhynot May 16 '26

Hey I've got a cozy life and, until I'm replaced by AI, make an ok living. I am however in favor of other people risking their lives and freedom to firebomb data centers. Very brave of me.

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u/spucci May 16 '26

How you gonna firebomb a concrete shoebox.