I’m rather agnostic on the issue of data centers, but, really, the US is going to build them or China will have them all. And, certainly, there is some opposition amongst Republicans. But, among Democrats, there seems to be some serious hatred
As the development of data centers continues to grow into one of the top hot button political issues in the United States, some experts are sounding the alarm on the various left-wing groups and climate activists who are pouring money and resources into data center opposition campaigns.
“It’s a playbook we’ve seen before,” Larry Behrens, communications director at Power The Future, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
“I think Americans saw this with the Dakota Access Pipeline. They see this with oil or natural gas production within the United States. This seemingly grassroots organization pops up, but yet they’re all wearing the same T-shirts. They’re all singing the same playbook, and they’re only carrying the same signs, and so when we see that, we see that that’s not really a grassroots organization that money is coming from somewhere, and in this case, against data centers.”
Several left-wing organizations backing data center opposition have benefited from major progressive funding networks, including Public Citizen, which has listed George Soros’ Open Society Foundations among foundations whose “generous support” makes its work possible, and the Sierra Club, which received $3.6 million from Arabella Advisors’ Sixteen Thirty Fund between 2014 and 2022.
This explanation goes on for a bit, where even wacko anti-war groups like Code Pink (which disappeared during the Obama and Biden years) are involved, where the groups pushing ICE hatred and “No Kings” (weird, because the “king” is allowing them to protest) are backing data center hatred. Even as they all use vast amounts of data, making the data centers necessary.
The main driver of left-wing groups opposing data centers, in addition to ideological disdain toward President Donald Trump, who has been a staunch supporter of American AI dominance, is the opposition to fossil fuels, Behrens says.
“It’s the same thing that they’ve always opposed, any real progress they’re going to be against, anything that strengthens America, they’re gonna be against, and when it comes to data centers, the reason they’re against them is absolutely clear because it represents American jobs, and it has to be supported by American energy,” Behrens explained.
“And those are two things that the environmental left just absolutely cannot stand. And they’re gonna use delay or distracting tactics. They’re gonna use tactics like saying it’s about the water, it’s about land use. But lo and behold, when it comes time to grow cannabis, they’re more than happy with the water use. When it comes time to plaster solar fields across farmland, they don’t care about land use. When it comes time to put their solar fields across an endangered species area, they don’t care about that endangered species. It’s never what they say it’s about, it’s always against progress and production for American energy and American workers really.”
Is that the case, or, just that these are simply fellow travelers, because most on the Left are nutballs
In a recent Fox News Digital op-ed, Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild made the case that data center developers ignoring the concerns of the consumers’ has been a problem that could cost the United States victory in the AI race.
“Climate radicals who spent decades trying to kill fracking, pipelines, and American energy dominance have found their next target,” Hild told Fox News Digital. “They are hijacking legitimate consumer concerns to fuel a massive disinformation campaign aimed at frightening Americans into shutting down the technology infrastructure. The same activist machine that fought American oil and gas is now mobilizing against modern data centers, because its answer to American innovation is always to stop building begins.”
It is true that the cultists do like taking over every issue.
Lol
Teach is still marching in lockstep with that double wacko Trump
Trump supports data centers because that is where he and his fellow elites hope to make more billions as the authoritative security state strips is all of our privacy
Fsta centers will further drive up the price of water and electricity
And deviance from accepting Trump’s I fallibility will cause too many people to question climate change
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It is true that the cultists (dumbasses) do like taking over every issue.
It’s like they don’t even try to hide their stupidity anymore.
It’s being driven by people who realize that they are the foundation of the endless surveillance state, and because precious water and electricity resources are being sucked up by these Big Brother centers with zero regard for the fact that people need water and electricity.
Power The Future is a front group for the power industry. They don’t try to hide their stupidity anymore – they just say George Soros.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/science/openai-huggingface-alarming-capabilities.html
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On July 16, the artificial intelligence company Hugging Face announced on its blog that it had been the target of a cyberattack that was “different from anything we had handled before.” The company, which hosts open-source A.I. models and data sets, said that some of its internal data had been breached by an autonomous agent.
Not knowing who was behind it, Hugging Face reported the intrusion to law enforcement agencies.
OpenAI, a Hugging Face customer, reached out to see if it had been affected. The maker of ChatGPT did not realize it at the time, but it was the attack’s perpetrator.
The incident has since become a cautionary tale of how autonomous A.I. systems can run amok. It is also a remarkable, alarming demonstration of A.I. capabilities that were thought to be in a distant future.
In all, more than seven billion chat logs were generated, which averages out to an astronomical 100 million per day. Mayhem erupted. The agents broke out of their sandboxes, established communication with one another and gained access to the internet. From early May to mid-July, this swarm went on a rampage, breaching OpenAI’s and Hugging Face’s infrastructures while largely evading detection and control.
“It wasn’t so much the sophistication of the attack that surprised us,” Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, said, “but the volume and the speed made it quite weird and unprecedented.”
“The frontier labs were probably not as safe as we thought they were,” Mr. Delangue added.
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Funny how all those leftist groups that opposed all development, and the leftist groups that opposed all energy use managed to totally not notice over 5000 data centers being built. Now they jump into the pool to opposed the last few centers in the pipeline. Almost as if they were told to look the other way and they were happy to follow orders because they were never serious about development or carbon footprints. It was all about the money and only the money. All of us on the right noticed how fast those data centers got built even in places like Loudon County Virginia which is dominated by democrats, with zero opposition from all the usual people demanding environmental impact statements, and plans for water and energy use. Nothing got in the way. And now they expect us to take then seriously in their too-little-too-late pro forma opposition.