Philosophical opposition to AI's impact on society.
Resource utilization: power and water.
Pollution: natural gas turbines on site and broadly the pollution of power generation, and noise pollution.
Subsidies to multitrillion dollar companies at the expense of taxpayers.
Impact on local community: traffic, construction, impact to surrounding home prices.
Lies about the benefits of datacenters: talk of how much money it might bring governments, while no dividends are paid to citizens impacted by the negative effects above.
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If a datacenter was quiet, powered by renewables, water-efficient in a place without water supply insecurity, and funded by the builders instead of taxpayers, most complaints would be solved.
These operators are in such a rush to build that they are ignoring all decency and resident concern in many cases.