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@connorpklocke @MatthewW_eacc If you aren't bullish on AI then you literally have nothing to worry about. The datacenters will all go bankrupt and they wont be an issue at all in ten years.

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@Cernovich Yes, and hes right, and people need to hear what he said.

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@MattForVA They think you are stupid because youre acting like people act when they are ignorant and scared.

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@ScottMGreer People are on an anti tech tear. Flock was a casualty to peoples hate for AI.

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@j_fishback Everything you just said is wrong.

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@BillSpadea @billyjoel This issue is too important to play pattycake. We have to build datacenters, its not an option to stop.

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@Thorsten22122 @mrswcsharp @Cernovich I use Claude pro version mostly. Its 20 bucks a month, and I ask it absolutely everything.

Not just medical issues though. If I'm having trouble diagnosing a repair I go to AI for help. If I can't find a replacement part to some obscure piece of equipment, AI.

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Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

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@KevinOffScript People feel overwhelmed by modernity, and they are taking that frustration out on Data Centers.

Data centers and AI have become the scapegoats for everything going wrong in peoples lives.

That is why they are just emotionally reactive and not logical.

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@KevinOffScript https://t.co/ZswPIbyRJ2

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@cremieuxrecueil The actual legitimate gripe is that modernity is creating all kinds of problems that are ruining peoples lives. Like tech addictions, isolations, etc.

People understand that something is wrong, but they don't know how to explain it, so they just attack AI/datacenters.

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@mc_reason1 @brad_polumbo It's almost like the tools themselves were never the problem, and it was only the evil people trying to build them that made it bad.

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@jimbohuff @Cernovich Perfect example. How long until the AI is the one running the Xray machine too? lol

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@mrswcsharp @Cernovich AI is really amazing at diagnosing disease, reading medical documents, lab reports, X-rays, etc.

I basically use AI as a full time personal physician already. I don't see any possible way that prices don't drop massively as AI starts doing medical jobs.

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1. Inauthentic account networks (strongest direct evidence)

The most concrete item is recent: X's safety team said it investigated suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts and found a bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts, of which about 200 were posting in ways that could manipulate debate over U.S. AI and energy policy. X did not disclose how many views those posts received, which is the key missing number — 200 accounts out of 200,000 is a small slice, and reach is unstated.

Before that, the threat-intel firm Alethea published a July 2026 analysis (the basis of a front-page NYT story) finding Facebook pages with local-sounding names like "Life in Oklahoma" and "Only in Montana" that are anonymously run and operated out of Bangladesh, posting AI-generated anti-data-center imagery that then gets cross-posted elsewhere, plus a cluster of TikTok accounts pushing near-identical AI-narrated "breaking news" videos about data center backlash, following the same template used in financial and sports content farms. Note what that actually is: Bangladeshi engagement farming, not state action. Alethea's own analyst framed data centers as an ideal topic for engagement-maximizing operators because it's locally salient in all 50 states and maps onto existing anti-China, anti-tax grievances.

2. Overt state media messaging (real but weak as "influence op")

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian outlets have folded data centers into existing narratives — Iranian outlets tying the buildout to pollution, to alleged Israeli links, and framing the backlash as a Trump administration failure. A skeptical analysis of the same Alethea report notes that much of the Chinese material was triumphalist propaganda apparently aimed at domestic readers, that Russia appeared to be using data centers more aggressively as a wedge issue than China, and that the report did not show any of it materially changed American opinion. This is attributable but it's just state broadcasting, not covert manipulation.

3. Foreign funding of advocacy groups (real, legal, and mostly not adversary states)

An April 2026 American Energy Institute report found 12 U.S. organizations opposing data centers had received more than $39 million from foreign donors — wealthy individuals and foundations in Switzerland, the UK, and Denmark. The largest is Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, whose foundation contributed to groups including the Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA, Indivisible, and Americans for Financial Reform; a spokeswoman said the foundation was not involved in the moratorium letter and that its grants were unrelated. Foreign funding of U.S. policy advocacy is legal (unlike election funding). So this is European climate philanthropy doing what it has done for two decades, relabeled as a foreign-influence story.

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@BuckBuckDriver @DavidMMcintosh @DeAngelisCorey No.

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@BillyBoBilly22 @JesseKellyDC Releasing open source AI is a strategy to try to slow America down. Just like filling your head with anti data center slop was another strategy to slow us down.

You are being used as a useful idiot.

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@bstein80 @shenanigans65 Data centers are a non negotiable issue. We have no choice but to build them, Trump wont budge on this.

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@Cernovich AI is going to be more powerful than nation states themselves in the future.

Beating China is not about the economy, its about if western civilization gets to continue at all.

This is life or death.