We need to break the narrative that data centers are inherently bad. And understand that there’s a good chance China is funding the anti data center narrative.
The data center backlash REALLY makes me wonder how did this country even get to where it is right now. Like if we saw this level of backlash during the Industrial Revolution the US would have remained an agricultural backwater
Americans are so materially privileged that we have begun to mistake infrastructure for nature. The lights come on. The water runs. The servers answer. The shelves are stocked. We barely notice the gigantic industrial systems making any of this possible until somebody proposes building one near us.
Americans flip a switch and expect electricity 24/7/365. Open a faucet and expect clean water. Tap a screen and expect the entire internet. Then someone proposes building the machinery that makes this lifestyle possible and suddenly we’re horrified that it has transformers
Nobody against data centers understands data centers.
Nobody against Flock cameras understands how they work or what they do.
Nobody demanding Medicare for All knows how Medicare currently functions or what it would cost.
Nobody saying “tax the rich” knows how much the rich already pay in taxes.
Nobody saying “seize the means of production” knows how to build or maintian the means of production.
Nobody saying “fund education” knows how much we already spend on education.
Nobody saying “no new wars” understands geopolitics.
Nobody saying “ban corporate landlords” knows what percentage of homes corporations actually own.
Nobody saying “developers are greedy” understands why housing costs what it does.
Nobody demanding price controls understands what happens to supply when you cap prices.
Nobody saying billionaires could “end homelessness” knows what governments already spend on homelessness.
Nobody saying “just build public housing” knows what it costs government to build a single unit.
Nobody demanding free college knows how much universities already receive from taxpayers.
Nobody saying “just nationalize it” can look at what the government already operates and understand why that's a bad idea.
Modern politics increasingly rewards having the strongest possible opinion about something you have spent the least possible time trying to understand.
The American voter increasingly demand sensationalism and they have no idea how wealthy they are compared to the rest of the world.
They may end up being the cause of their self inflicted belt tightening and they are in no way ready for an ounce of actual poverty.
We need immediate competence to take over sensationalism and social media, especially tiktok is the enemy of that.
I want more data centers.
I want more nuclear power plants.
I want more water desalination plants.
I want more high speed transport.
I want more automated warehouses.
I want more 3D printing.
I want an abundant, advanced, high trust society… no longer stifled by doomerism, neuroticism and cowardice.
"How could the boomers have been so stupid as to reject nuclear energy?"
"We need to reject data centers that will fund our schools, cut our taxes, keep China from world domination, and employ our neighbors"
- same people
Pretty good odds the two best teams in the AL -- the Yankees and Rays -- are going to play in the ALDS. Among other issues, MLB has to fix the playoff format. Should go by best record. The winner of the AL Central has no business being seeded ahead of teams with better records.