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US data center protests go national as backlash grows
(www.reuters.com)
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This is gonna go really well when people find out the only way to safely store health and justice data is in a specialized building.
Thats already happened.
These data centers are for AI to scrape data from you, that's it.
Dont conflate things.
Only because hyperscale AI Data Centers and the kind of data centers we already had got conflated. That was almost certainly intentional.