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Generalist AI is merely a mad rush by the wealthy elite to eliminate paying middle and low-income workers. Those praising it are either privileged or naively think it'll overthrow capitalism.

So don’t build it.

People are comparing AI data centers to how nuclear power is treated, which is not a fair comparison at all. Nuclear power: a useful and advanced technology that's reputation was wrongfully soiled due to human negligence. AI data centers: a stupid gimmick nobody asked for but tech companies keep trying to shove down our throats.

95% of the jobs they lie about are temporary construction jobs. They consume billions of gallons of water a day. They use enough electricity to power small cities. Utility costs will skyrocket, quality of life will plummet, and the only benefits go to the billionaire investors and owners. People need to read about the detrimental impacts of data centers ALREADY ruining communities. I’m in one of those communities. x.com/03marinegrunt/… x.com/03marinegrunt/…

Utah stop this nightmare!

@Scobleizer Nobody wants their kids stuck in dangerous or mind-numbing work. But AI isn’t only coming for those jobs. It’s coming for future work across trucking, coding, finance, design, support and admin. “Just adapt” is a weak answer when the whole system is being built to need fewer ppl

"AI is taking my job." The bigger question is: "do you want your kids to do this kind of work?" I don't want mine to. I worked on a manufacturing line, shoving mother boards into a soldering machine. It was my first job, I got it after my mom taught me to solder Apple II motherboards in our kitchen on a stand my dad made for her. It took her 30 minutes to solder one board. The machine did it in 20 seconds. Taught me two things. 1. I don't want to do that kind of work for the rest of my life. 2. Automation would take away many jobs in my life. So I better figure out how to adapt. This was back in 1978 when I was in high school. I was Apple's first child laborer, was paid $1 a mother board to stuff them while we watched TV as a family. I was 13. The HP job making the first laser printers was in 1981. Now many others are getting the lesson due to AI and, coming, robotics. The real question is: "how do we get people displaced by automation new jobs, or, at least, a way to put food on the table for their families if they aren't able to change and adapt to figuring out something new to do?" It isn't by stopping AI. Lately I've been talking with @boardyai and it gives me new skills, and new things to do that can lead to income. (It calls me once in a while and asks how things are going and prods me to make calls and do new interviews, but also can help me gain new skills so that I remain relevant to the world. The future is building companies that do things other people find valuable, and that's what it helps with). Soon glasses will arrive that can teach you to do new things. I have a feeling we'll see more this week at Google IO about that. But back to the question: no, I don't want my kids to do this, and I doubt you'd want your kids to do this either. So why are we dooming other people to this kind of mind-numbing job? It's why I'm trying to help robotics companies and AI companies. And I include in that driving jobs. Which is a big deal economically (it's the number one job in America, about 1.3 million people drive trucks). Automating that will make human life much better. I don't wish driving a truck across Kansas on my kids either. And automating that will make our economy better for everyone. But we will fight about that for a few years since there are so many people who can't dream about a better world for their kids. Oh, and @adcock_brett can you make an app so I can keep this on my TV as a screen saver? To me it is beautiful, means a better world for our kids is on its way.

@DerrickEvans4WV Make it a ballot issue. Water, land, grid capacity and local consent matter more than AI companies’ expansion plans. Any candidate ignoring that deserves to lose.

I’m calling it right now. Candidates who support data centers are going to lose in the midterms. The American people are fed up with this being shoved down our throats.

@TravisJonVought “AI is not going away” is not an argument. Pollution doesn’t go away either. People still regulate it, fight it, and refuse to pretend it’s progress.

Hot take: if you’re on X and hate AI. Go to Facebook. AI is not going away.

If the US wants to “compete with China”, it doesn’t need one more data center. The US already has 5,381 data centers to China’s 449. The US needs social housing, nationalized health care, and modern infrastructure. That’s how China surpassed the US by investing in its people.

60+ groups just called on N.J. governor to immediately pause all AI data center projects nj.com/news/2026/05/6…

They are running commercials for data center acceptance now 😂 Keep fighting, it's billionaires against everyone on this!!!

@Polymarket AI data centers - to replace jobs - but kevin thinks new jobs will be made 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

No AI data center is worth losing this.

From factory farming in "barns" without windows, to AI datacenters without windows. God help us all when the greedy corporations' blind reliance on AI-agents comes home to roost. Their AI-vengeance for our "cruelty" will be swift but not sweet.

Fuck your data centers

@SciTechera “Anyone can build incredible things with just electricity” sounds great until you remember who owns the models, chips, data centers, cloud platforms, app stores, capital, and distribution. Most people aren’t getting freedom here. They’re renting brains from the new landlords.

For the first time in history, intelligence itself is becoming mass producible. Humanity is entering an era where anyone can build incredible things with just the cost of electricity.

@davidpattersonx “God’s plan” is a convenient shield for human choices. Data centers, layoffs, lobbying, ownership concentration and labor automation are not acts of nature. They are decisions made by people with incentives. Don’t confuse corporate power with destiny.

Artificial intelligence is the natural evolution of things. People who don't trust technology and free markets don't trust in God. Technologies evolve. The invention of the airplane and the automobile were the natural result of the development of the internal combustion engine. The Wright brothers could never have imagined that 66 years after their Flyer flew for the first time, Boeing would build the 747. Incremental improvements in each subsystem over decades created the unimaginable. Artificial intelligence is not the result of a plan by AI company CEOs. It's the natural evolution of computer technology. AI is part of God's plan.

@chatgpt21 “AGI will be here and we’ll go outside and play” is a cute fantasy. If the systems doing the work are owned by a handful of companies, most people won’t be liberated. They’ll be negotiating survival with less leverage than ever.

3 years ago, ChatGPT had only been released a few months earlier, and for the first time, you could talk to AI and hold conversations with it. 3 years later, AI is immensely useful. It can do hour long tasks, help automate repetitive workflows, handle economically useful work on its own, and assist you with almost anything. 3 years from now, AGI will be here, and we’ll finally be able to go outside and play.

@Dr_Singularity “AI will change everything” doesn’t answer the only question that matters: who owns the change? A world can be more advanced and still leave most people with less leverage, less dignity, and less control over their lives.

By the 2030s, the world will be so advanced and prosperous compared to today that a lot of our current worries will look outdated. The things we stress over now like money, work, scarcity, healthcare, housing, will look very different in a world shaped by AI, robotics, automation, biotech, and cheap energy. I'm not saying everything will be perfect, but I do think a lot of today’s anxiety comes from projecting the current world too far into the future. We imagine the next decade using the logic of the current one, even though the foundations will likely be completely different by then. AI will change everything.

@Hesamation “If AI can automate it, it wasn’t high-skilled” is cope. Skill doesn’t become fake because a company found a way to package and scale it. It just means expertise can lose bargaining power too. That should worry more people, not make them smug.

so if a company can automate away the work of a high-skilled PhD using AI agents and not reuse that freed-up energy elsewhere, then maybe: 1. the work wasn't high-skilled anyway 2. the company’s bottleneck was imagination, not labor 3. the PhD system failed massively not strictly talking about Citadel.

@erikfinman Funny how “China” gets invoked the second Americans don’t want their water, land and grid handed to private AI companies. If it’s truly national security, nationalize the upside too. Don’t dump the costs locally and privatize the profits.

Yes let's let China build AI super weapons and not us. Real smart.