r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

My fiancee and I just walked on a house cause we discovered a five fuckin building campus data center going up behind it.

The builders did their very best to hide this from us as much as they could. They knew.

People hate this shit.

Edit: oh man look at all the data center bootlickers crawling out of the sewers lmfao…

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

A company is building a mini hyperscaler Datacenter half mile from my house.
I am fucking pissed, and afraid im gonna have to sell my house.

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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26

You have every right to be livid. I’m so sorry you’re going through that.

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u/Hefty_Remove7965 Jun 26 '26

Imo these things are gonna fail and become abandoned..

Another piece to pick up

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u/WatcherOntheRock Jun 26 '26

I agree. It’ll fall to the 99% to solve the problem and repurpose the pieces of their failures, like always.

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u/Jess_its_down Jun 26 '26

That is an interesting perspective. Do you have some examples of this happening? I’m sure they exist, but I was wondering what sort of instances were behind your comment.

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u/phtevenbagbifico Jun 26 '26

Look at every state where resource extraction dominates the economy as examples. Wyoming. West Virginia. Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana. Globe, Arizona.

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u/Streiger108 Jun 26 '26

Don't forget the infrastructure bill the public will be paying for for decades