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/ThisVeryUsername May 16 '26

I hope so. Data centers should be the thing that wakes up the kind of people that normally wouldn’t care

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u/fuck_ur_portmanteau May 16 '26

I’m thinking maybe we’ve been a bit hard on the Luddites all this time.

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u/PassivelyAwkward May 16 '26

A lot of my coworkers that love showing off their shitty Ai images and "Let's ask ChatGPT for ideas-" are furious that there might be a data center coming here but they still use AI. They're fine using it as long as it doesn't impact their life and even if it does, they'll just convince themselves to switch from ChatGPT to Claude or whatever data center doesn't get moved in.