@davidsirota The amount of pro data center posts yesterday and the day before (prompted by AOC and Bernie's actions) was nauseating. 95% of them had some .ai URL in their bio's.
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NEW: Tech bros are somehow expressing surprise that polls show Americans don't want to live near data centers that jack up utility prices, create noise pollution & suck up tax subsidies - all to enrich tech oligarchs & boost AI ruining kids' minds & making dumb Internet slop.
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"Assault Weapon" is a nebulous term, even with the verbiage from the previous bill. Semi-automatic guns with large magazines can be used for hunting, personal home defense as well as for nefarious means like shooting up a school. If the gun control sector wants to make any progress the language needs to be specific.
What constitutes a "large magazine"? 10 rds, 15 rds? Who gets to decide what small, medium and large mean in this case?
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The Federal Assault Weapons Ban that was passed in 1994 had the following definition:
"In general, assault weapons are semiautomatic firearms with a large magazine of ammunition that were designed and configured for rapid fire and combat use."
My view is this: Just like it's not unreasonable to ban people from owning ballistic missiles and RPGs, it's also not unreasonable to limit the guns people can own based on potential mass lethality.
Assault weapons bans attempt to implement this principle, even if they are somewhat suboptimally tailored for that goal.
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Fun Fact: Mass shooting deaths were 70% lower before the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004.
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 NEW: Gov. Spanberger signs bill banning new assault weapon sales in Virginia.
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@HitGarageDoor @micah_erfan Yeah yeah...there's a reason I asked the question I asked.
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@bunlengthhotdog @micah_erfan Shall not be infringed means exactly that.
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@HitGarageDoor @micah_erfan Not a cultist ='s reasonable gun owner willing to discuss gun control reform.
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@bunlengthhotdog @micah_erfan "cultist"
That's some wild phrasing.
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@mark_k This isn’t left vs right though. 63% of Conservatives oppose hyperscale data centers…39% strongly oppose them. 70% across the board oppose them.
news.gallup.com/poll/709772/am…
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It bears repeating: you cannot seriously be an AI and technology enjoyer while fully aligning with today’s left. The modern left has become the political home of anti-technology, deceleration, overregulation, and reflexive AI panic. Every major leap forward is treated as a threat first and an opportunity second.
AI should be seen as one of the greatest tools for abundance, medicine, education, productivity, and human flourishing. Instead, much of the left talks about it like it’s mainly a labor threat, a misinformation machine, or something that needs to be slowed down before it can change too much.
At some point, you have to choose: progress or stagnation. Acceleration or fear. Building the future or endlessly trying to regulate it out of existence.
Garry Tan@garrytan
Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies. The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.
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@Gabby_Hoffman Nonsense. Data Centers that house servers for web apps, email (traditional compute) are nowhere near the drain on our environment that hyperscaler / AI GPU clusters are. Not even close.
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Data centers aren’t simply for AI.
Every text, email, movie streamed, and social media post is you - the individual - interacting with data centers.
Our digital interactions have to be stored somewhere. They’re housed in data centers, AI-powered or not.
Unless you become a Luddite and rid of all tech from your life, you are dependent on data centers…
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@CommonSenseSoln @WallStreetApes Water used at golf courses returns to the ecosystem. Water used at 85% of data centers is lost due to evaporation.
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@WallStreetApes Golf courses use just as much water as data centers. And, there are currently 880 golf courses in Texas.
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Texas is going from 40 Data Centers to over 400 in the next 2 years
- Texas could use 30% of US data center power demand by 2028
- By 2030 the Texas data centers could use 161 billion gallons of water per year
- The 400 data centers will use the equivalent of 9 million homes in energy usage every year
I don’t want to EVER hear the words climate change ever again
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@Russ33740184 @WallStreetApes Closed loop (little to no evaporation) systems already exist…the problem is they are expensive and use a LOT more power (up to 50% more) than the older open loop cooling systems.
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@WallStreetApes The next great invention is a cooling method that requires little to no water. Many locales can’t sustain a major increase in fresh water usage especially out west due to drought
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@AmericanSqautch @SunshineS58469 @WallStreetApes Closed loop cooling is only used in 10-15% of data centers, mostly because of up front costs and energy use (40-50% more power required than open loop systems).
There is ALWAYS a trade off, use less water = use more power etc etc.
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@SunshineS58469 @WallStreetApes I think they can use closed loop cooling. Seems like the whole water waste thing is a scare tactic to me.
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@there4what @WallStreetApes 80-85% of data centers use open loop cooling. Closed loop systems are very expensive up front AND use about 40% more energy than open loop cooling systems.
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@WallStreetApes These are closed cooling systems. So how do they go through so much water? Modern cell phones are liquid cooled. How much liquid do you add each year?
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@SwipeWright This isn’t a left / right issue. 63% of Republicans oppose them. 39% Strongly oppose them. 70% of Americans oppose them.
news.gallup.com/poll/709772/am…
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The Left’s opposition to data centers, revealed by the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act, might be the single most dangerous thing about voting Democrat in 2028.
Halting the infrastructure powering our AI future while China builds nonstop would be utterly disastrous.
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@AlexanderPayton Jesus, what a complete and utter crock of shit. Like…all of it. 🤡
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Data centers are generating trillions of dollars in value for the economy.
Data centers don’t consume water, they return it to the environment.
Data centers lower household energy costs by producing their own electricity and generating stable demand that reduces operating costs for the grid.
Data centers create jobs for construction workers, electricians, and other skilled workers year round, all across the country.
Data centers data centers pay billions in state and local taxes without using public services, meaning more resources for the rest of us.
Data centers power every part of the digital economy in ways most people don’t even know, even enabling things as mundane as stocking products at grocery stores.
Data centers are driving the AI revolution that will keep America ahead of China and enable universal high income for everyone.
Garry Tan@garrytan
Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies. The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.
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Musk is likely autistic and has a photographic memory. He reads…a LOT…which goes a long way for someone with the gift of photographic memory.
That said, as CEO he can call himself whatever he wants. Chief Engineer, Lead Designer etc etc. Reports from former colleagues and co-workers vary from him being a savant who knows everything about everything to an egotistical man-child who they had to babysit and placate until he left the room so they could get back to work.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
He’s not dumb, thats for sure…but he also isn’t Tony Stark as some would have everyone believe.
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AOC will look at this and unironically declare that Elon is one of the stupidest people alive and not an engineer
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@jaylovesarguin @ArthurMacwaters Ah yes, the engineers just decided to engineer the satellites without any input from Musk
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@mattvanswol Hey Swol…how many people previously convicted of FRAUD has Trump pardoned?
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I HAVE ABSOLUTELY HAD IT WITH THE GOP!!!!!!!!
JD VANCE IS OUT THERE FINDING FRAUD EVERYWHERE...
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CUTTING DEALS IN CHINA...
MARCO RUBIO IS PULLING ALL NIGHTERS...
...AND THE GOP CAN'T EVEN VOTE ON THE SAVE ACT?!!!!!!
WHAT ARE THE GOP DOING?!!!!!
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@garrytan When will AI generate any tangible profit with all this spending? Trillions in costs from companies done off whose bottom lines are still in the millions. Make it make sense.
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Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies.
The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.
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The “ghosts of the Confederacy” are the ghosts of the Democratic Party. Of the 4 million slaves in the South and the border states in 1860, more than 90% were owned by Democrats. Fewer than 10 Republicans owned slaves!
Hakeem Jeffries@RepJeffries
The ghosts of the confederacy have afflicted the Supreme Court. And are haunting the nation. Shameful.
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@VP @Republicans How many people who were CONVICTED OF COMMITTING FRAUD has Trump pardoned couch fucker?
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"The generosity of the American people is one of the most amazing things about our country...I'm proud to lead the effort in our government to finally take fraud seriously." - VP Vance🔥
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