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Democrat and Republican Voters United on Key Issue: Hatred of Data Centers
Conservatives and liberals alike are joining the fight against AI data centers to an astonishing degree.
futurism.com
Across the entire country, small rural communities are standing up to the rise of AI data centers, saying the enormous facilities threaten to suck water supplies dry and send electricity prices soaring.
It’s become such a contentious issue that many Americans are doing something that often feels impossible in the contemporary political landscape: setting aside their often steep differences in politics to come together and oppose proposals for large-scale data centers.
As the New York Times reports, conservatives and liberals alike are joining sides on the issue to an astonishing degree — a home run for any candidate willing to throw their weight behind the phenomenon.
“There was stunningly little difference for our normally extremely polarized state,” Marquette University Law School Poll director Charles Franklin, who recently found that 70 percent of Wisconsin voters say the cons of data centers outweigh the pros, told the newspaper.
“This is the most bipartisan issue since beer,” joked Milwaukee-based comedian Charlie Berens during a March anti-data center rally in Southwest Wisconsin.
Of course entities like the WSJ along with the tech billionaire robber barons are now trying to say that the the climate change weenies are just looking for a new home and found one with Data Centers.
They claim that trying to make Data Centers a Right vs Left wedge issue.....Nope, it's far from it, the comedian is correct.
