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Why is he setting his goals so low? This is practically giving up

@CatLvr5303 @emzanotti Maybe you need better municipal leadership that is oriented towards growth instead of sucking wind and doing nothing

They're basically destroying beautiful property in Georgia..a data center near where I formerly lived in Fayette County, GA drained massive amounts of water (during a drought!) that reduced water pressure. I guarantee if it was your water and your chickens and kids 400 yards from a data center you would be hysterical. Now Georgia Power is taking hundreds of homes/farms in neighboring Coweta County to provide power to data centers. People need to be hysterical.

I’m not pro-data center, but this is starting to feel hysterical, like when everyone thought fracking was setting the water on fire

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu nobody wants to go back to being poor. nobody wants cheap shit. They want to be able to pay for the good shit. in the 70s chinese were living on like $100 a year. lmao. stop pretending poverty is some virtue just because you're a china simp and you think china is based for it

@transfix @kage_urufu Rural Chinese don't pay rent and own their homes US' GDP per capita in 1970 was only $5234 No one think they were poor in the 1970s in the US. In fact most Americans want to go back to that. Why? Because everything were a lot cheaper

Guy who has never stepped foot in China be like

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu they seem pretty broke to me

@transfix @kage_urufu When you have the wrong premise, you come to the wrong conclusion. Wrong premise is that everyone in China is broke.

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu rural Chinese on average make $3400 a year

@transfix @kage_urufu Different scales? China down to 0% while the US is 1% extreme poverty As I said, China has lower extreme poverty than the US as shown by the World Bank

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu so why is everyone broke then?

@transfix @kage_urufu China isn't poor They made 1.2 trillion dollars in trade surplus last year and they don't have ICE camps

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu two embarrassingly different scales and you're gonna brag? average chinese is making 1/6th of an american. weird man

@transfix @kage_urufu Can't read a chart now can you?

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu so you think the reason china is poor is because they have too many chinese people and don't have ICE camps? you might be on to something

@transfix @kage_urufu Different conditions. China is over populated and the US is not. Sorry but China doesn't have ICE camps

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu i took my nephew to an actual go kart joint the other day, it was way more lit than that

@transfix @kage_urufu Feel free to share a picture of a similar radio control track at a park in the US

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu lol listen to you- USA losing pop is bad, but china losing pop is good. nothing you say matters, youre just a china simp. they could have concentration camps and you'd celebrate it

@transfix @kage_urufu China has 1.4 billion people. They don't mind if they have 300 million fewer mouths to feed and employ. With 300 million fewer people, their GDP per capita would improve.

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu how embarrassing for you

@transfix @kage_urufu Tell that to the World Bank

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu China is a Han ethnostate and their population is literally declining. They hate immigrants btw.

@transfix @kage_urufu The Chinese are younger than the Americans Without immigration, the US would be losing population and now they're importing Indians while deporting Latinos

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu How do you know there isnt one?

@transfix @kage_urufu What's embarrassing is that a so called rich country like the USA cannot have simple things like a little car track in their parks.

@HundredCHours @kage_urufu China is over, bro. Wage growth is less than ours now. And basic search shows poverty rate is worse than USA. Youre just making shit up at this point

@transfix @kage_urufu Running on fumes that wages are still growing while inflation is close to 0%? You forget a third of Americans cannot afford that $500 dollar emergency fund? There are more Americans in extreme poverty than in China

@oscys45 @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog it's called having an economy. When there is insufficient supply, your cost goes up. But then there is more money to meet demand. You want more money flowing through your economy. This is how wages increase. This isn't zero sum.

@transfix @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog That's not how power generation works. When there's insufficient capacity, new units are added to an existing plant, or a new plant is added to the fleet. That new infrastructure is funded through an increase in kWh price for EVERYONE. How much? 25% of Virginia's gen goes to DCs.

Big Tech companies are sprinting forward, building data centers as fast as they can, sometimes using eminent domain to seize the land by force, making their AI more and more powerful, expanding the technology at lightening speed with no guardrails of any kind at all. Yet none of these tech gurus or any of their apologists have even attempted to explain what exactly all of the millions of people who lose their jobs, and the increasing numbers who lose their homes, all sacrificed on the AI altar, are supposed to do. How does society support millions of unemployed and displaced people? What becomes of a society where algorithms and machines do everything, and a few people become trillionaires while millions more lose everything? There is no answer to any of this. They aren’t even attempting to answer it. Instead we’re simply told that China exists and we have to “beat them” in some unspecified way, in order to achieve some unspecified goal. We’re going to obliterate entire industries, entire categories of jobs all at once, and the only justification anyone can give is “China.” It’s madness.

@oscys45 @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog well I have legit never seen an Indian running or working at any of these facilities and I've been to many. One of the last tech work places you'll see near zero Asians. Same for the HVAC and electric contractors for the DCs. Where are you?

@transfix @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog Data Centers hire Indian, nothing but Indian. You're kidding about that, right? Not that it's much: a 5-acre facility will employ about 50 people.

@oscys45 @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog They're building them in space soon, that far enough away from you? Lol. They cant be too far though, latency is an issue

@transfix @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog I'm not saying not to build it, I'm just saying to build it elsewhere. Alaska: not near anyone, and cold enough to defray cooling costs, even if marginally.

@oscys45 @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog They are not louder than an airport lmao. And the idea that they arent paying for upgrades is dumb, they are paying massive power bills, extra power revenue is more than enough for upgrades. DCs are about the businesses they host. DCs dont hire Indian, not their wheelhouse

@transfix @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog How does a suburban family economically benefit from a facility that a) is louder than an airport, b) consumes gigawatts without paying for generation upgrades, c) provides very few jobs that will almost certainly be going to Indians?

@AndrewManic @TheDanteMunoz nah just you

@transfix @TheDanteMunoz Majority of americans are broke and can barely afford Chinese goods

Where are those “China’s only cheap because they pay their workers pennies” people? China is so affordable because they have focused on rapidly developing their productive forces to outpace the contradictions of capitalist development. They just did exactly what Marx wrote.

@oscys45 @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog everyone benefits from economic development. Are you serious right now? so what if they are higher density? that means just means more money is flowing. Agriculture uses so much more water than data centers. You guys are psyopped into deindustrialization

@transfix @RobertJSalvador @MattWalshBlog AI data centers are not traditional data centers. They run GPU clusters, not CPUs, thus require far more power and cooling. Suburbia benefits from this not at all.

@casiopao @kage_urufu We have a shit ton of rare earths. That shit was never rare, broski. We were just regulated out of mining for it. Not anymore. We have no use for you at all. Any business we do with you is mere charity at this point

@transfix @kage_urufu Awww loser dog. U cant even make jackshit without us, u beggars. Try find some of those rare earths without us. U lowborn scum has nothing to be proud now.