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https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327
A wave of voter anger over massive data center projects is beginning to reshape U.S. politics, with local officials and senior lawmakers losing elections after backing controversial developments tied to the artificial intelligence boom.
In Utah on Wednesday, State Senate President J. Stuart Adams—one of the most powerful Republicans in the state—lost his primary election after supporting a major data center development near the Great Salt Lake, in one of the clearest signs yet of the growing political risks tied to the industry.
At the local level, the fallout was just as direct. "Do I think that the data center vote cost me the election? Yes I do," former Box Elder County Commissioner Lee Perry said after conceding his primary race, after voting to advance the same project.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Sunday June 28, @01:05PM (13 children)
You pissed off your constituency, figured your backers would give you enough money to overcome that but all it did was fuel the flames.
About time.
Being the dumbest idiot in the land and president of the US should be 2 different people.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28, @01:37PM (8 children)
Most of the arguments against data center is pure propaganda backed by the very powerful Chinese propaganda engine in order to favorize China's dominance in the data center space. Out in China, nobody is allowed to bitch against what the government decides so China takes advantage of free speech to destabilize America.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28, @01:54PM (5 children)
(Score: 5, Touché) by epitaxial on Sunday June 28, @04:12PM (4 children)
Fox News.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28, @04:30PM (3 children)
And that's why the President must be allowed to hold designated antifa terrorists indefinitely.
(Score: 4, Informative) by epitaxial on Sunday June 28, @04:51PM (2 children)
Trump appointed head of the FBI says antifa is an ideology and not an organization. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-james-comey-politics-bdd3b6078e9efadcfcd0be4b65f2362e [apnews.com]
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday June 29, @02:26AM
Article dated September 17, 2020, and has not aged well.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29, @04:13AM
Antifa is not even that, except in the loosest sense. Antifa is simply a label used to denote those who are against fascism. So that could mean anyone from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joseph Stalin, from hard greens to Catholic Liberation Theologians to unreformed Tankies to hedonistic leftists to democratic socialists, all of whom consider the others buzzkills. They might march together in a common protest action but there will be hardly anything they agree upon other than the rise of fascism must be stopped.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28, @02:11PM
Russian psyops is also very active in Europe.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday June 29, @02:31AM
I have heard the same, and it's probably true, BUT ... just because the Chinese would love to make us put the brakes to any tech they can't catch up with doesn't necessarily mean that datacenters in our front yards is a great idea, or that there aren't piles of drawbacks in the way it's being implemented.
Put 'em on the sites of old steel mills, already well-supplied with infrastructure, and can't be uglier or noisier. Don't put 'em near residential, or in areas that are already water-starved, and make them bring their own power so they don't impact everyone else. Were all that the case, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday June 28, @02:30PM (3 children)
Indeed. This can't really be a complete surprise. If it was then you are to gullible and/or stupid to be in politics. He chose his corporate overlords filling his coffers instead of listening to the people that can actually vote and decide if should have a job or not.
(Score: 4, Touché) by OrugTor on Sunday June 28, @03:08PM (1 child)
In his defense, coffers usually win.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Unixnut on Sunday June 28, @04:11PM
For once I am happy to see it didn't, long may it not only continue, but spread far and wide.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by krishnoid on Sunday June 28, @04:37PM
"Do I think that the data center vote cost me the election? Yes I do,"
"Do I think that supporting a large, ugly, loud, permanent, exceedingly visible, residential-resource-diverting, invisible-public-utility (not like Amazon) is the kind of political position that repulses people enough to redirect their voting patterns? Well, when you put it that way, I do now"
i mean, if they instead made it at least one of:
the electorate might have swallowed it. But ... seriously?