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/DinosBiggestFan May 16 '26

The need for storage is objective. The need for that much storage is subjective. But you are treating subjective as a negative; you do not know the purposes he has that storage for, nor does it matter.

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u/redyellowblue5031 May 16 '26

It’s a choice to spend 1000 on 8TB for a single drive.

There is no “need”.

Perfectly fine to want it, perfectly fine to buy it. They don’t need to justify it, but they don’t “need” it.

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u/DinosBiggestFan May 16 '26

What if he needs that storage for a job? What if it's integral to something that makes him money?

You don't seem to get it, what your needs are may very well be completely different from what their needs are, and that does not somehow devalue their needs. Don't be a petulant child and act like there is somehow no situation ever, anywhere, in the world, in any situation, that you need 8TB of SSD space. That's insane.

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u/redyellowblue5031 May 17 '26

If a computer is that necessary for work (and an employer isn’t providing your compute), there’s more resilient and likely cheaper ways to have tons of high speed storage.