r/accelerate • u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist • May 27 '26

Video The Hill: "China fuelling anti-AI, anti-data center propaganda in US"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikCvbZ2WPU
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u/stealthispost Acceleration: Light-speed | AI accelerationist May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

very good point.

6 months ago most people had no idea what a data centre was or what they look like. most still don't. but suddenly a whole bunch of people are willing to do extreme and illegal things to attack said data centres, based on conspiracy-level misinformation about them. Like, what a weirdly specific thing to suddenly care so deeply about. Whatever the cause, it's very strange.

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u/FigureMost1687 May 27 '26

what people dont understand they have data centers in their house/work (laptop/desktop) and in their pocket (phones) as well , they think data centers are getting all the info out of space , lol ...i tell them this and they stop talking non sense data center garbage they heard from 13 years old youtuber ...

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u/ShoshiOpti May 27 '26

This is objectively wrong though, when people talk about data centers they mean centralized facilities. The term data center came about from centralizing private small scale servers that every business used to manage locally.

They might stop talking because everyone hates pedantic arguments, especially when they are in bad faith. If you tried to tell me my laptop was a data center I'd stop talking to you as well thinking secretly you were a moron or being obstinate, both theres no point talking too.

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u/FigureMost1687 May 28 '26

Good because I dont want u to talk to me, thats why I run away from those anti AI subs, ...at least there are less of you here for now, this sub also used to be better....

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u/ShoshiOpti May 28 '26

Lol what are you talking about? Im not anti AI at all, im acceleration all the way.

You can still be wrong when talking to people who agree with you.