Connor Mighell

Attorney @BurkeLawTweets. Writer @SolidSlateCFB. Allergic to whataboutism. Philippians 4:8.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

Due process matters.

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

Some of you think data centers are enormous concrete temples built exclusively so ChatGPT can answer whether your chicken is still good.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@NellUncle neither do data centers

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

Data centers are the new oil wells, except you can put them almost anywhere and they’re cleaner. Build more.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@PittsburghTango “backbone of the surveillance state”

dude, I loathe Flock. and their buddies. data centers make the internet go. this isn’t hard.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

The people who are angriest about data centers on this godforsaken website have no idea what they are. Remarkable.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@PittsburghTango 157 on average, depends on the county, we knew this in 2017. next? https://t.co/sRPGOVEoOK

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

Yes.

[Cynthia Bell McGillis @cynthiamcgillis]

Earnest question on data centers…these are just server farms right? Like what AWS already had and now we just need more of them because of the demand for compute?

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

A data center is almost comically tame as industry goes. No smokestacks. No ore piles. No molten steel. No freight trains of coal. Mostly a very large box containing computers, electrical equipment, cooling systems, and an expensive humming noise. And even this is apparently too industrial for us.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@PittsburghTango telling me your degree and expertise (congrats, by the way) tells me nothing about whether you know what a data center does

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@calisurfsup No

[Daniel Newman @danielnewmanUV]

“But the data centers utilize so much water”

The Internet is literally undefeated when it comes to being uninformed. 🥲

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

Every post anyone makes on X goes through a data center.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@uncledoomer TikTok which is served through data centers

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

“We don’t want data centers here.”

Great. Your town’s economic development plan can remain a Dollar General and three vape shops

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@ThePoeticAce wouldn’t be the first time

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@KeithKopinski no, they give you the internet

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

JUST IN: Data centers are often criticized for “wasting water” but golf courses use roughly 3x as much.

[Casey Mattox @CaseyMattox_]

You think "AI" will be the end of society.

I think it's more likely that stupid betting app you're on right now will be the end of society.

We are not the same.

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@OneWith_You build more clean nuclear power plants then

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@ModemWarsVet most cogent counterargument here tbh

[Connor Mighell @cmiglaw]

@ChristinaPushaw Data centers make internet go. That’s the entire case.