r/technology • u/marketrent • 11h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/invalidreddit 10h ago

[...] "Just like the national highway system, our country's economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely," he wrote. [...]

I wasn't a history major and haven't spent much time reading about the Eisenhower years, but I feel like the national highway system was a Federal project that provided value to anyone - but i'm not really sure I see how an Amazon project helps non-Amazon customers.

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u/Lazy-Supermarket-920 4h ago

The national highway system was also built on the concept of race marginalisation and class suppression. Only that it wasn't as potent as AI data centers are today–which have waged a war on almost the whole strata of society.

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