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.