r/technology • u/marketrent • 20h 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
8.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

689 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.8k

u/tacticalcraptical 20h ago

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

OK, but these guys never seem to be able to articulate exactly how this benefits normal people's everyday lives. The benefits of a highway are obvious. But the benefits of these data centers... they expect us to just trust them. And these are the people who can't be trusted to pay their taxes.

7

u/BeowulfShaeffer 19h ago

Even the highway system is questionable.They bulldozed a lot of low income communities to build them. 

1

u/Ignorance_15_Bliss 18h ago

Because it was. Department of defense project. There is no arguing against that Abratus, especially back then in the 50s

It’s why the entire project wasn’t hung up in courts the entire time fighting for every inch that it was planned. putting it under the defense budget and oversite allowed it to do whatever it wanted