• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    toxic sludge is good for you

    This is perhaps obscure, but a reference to a famous PR book from the 1970s. Datacenter harm is mostly about electricity scarcity pricing for rest of US, noise and sometimes water use, and financial loss. There can be pollution/global warming associated concerns, but its not a major health care issue.

    stop treating oligarchs like they don’t have something to gain by supporting each other.

    This is indeed the core issue in America. Israel first rulership is part of the support circle, and much more so, since 2024.

    That $1B budget is unlikely to be TV advertisements for datacenters. It’s likely to be bribes that get all of the pre-election candidate opposition to projects go quiet after election.

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      4 hours ago

      Anecdotal but I absolutely hear radio ads for a data center brand and the entirety of the ads are propaganda about how this particular brand of data center cares about the surrounding neighborhood. None of the ad is about how the data centers this company builds are used, just an ad talking about how they don’t do the typical negative things associated with data centers.

      Propaganda.