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Re:Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:44PM (#49201418)
The reasons to care about "industry" in particular are process knowledge and highly skilled labor and supply chains. Datacenters have very little involvement in any of those. And they don't bring many jobs.
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Re:Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly... by inigyou on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:30PM (#49202861)
So basically your opinion is that data centers should not be illegal. Great! Let's start by dismantling the one serving your internet connection.
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Re:Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:20PM (#49203433)
> So basically your opinion is that data centers should not be illegal.

Huh? Sure but that's not what I was talking about?

> Let's start by dismantling the one serving your internet connection.

There's a huge gap in explanation for how you got here. But home internet connections aren't served by data centers anyway.

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Re:Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly... by inigyou on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:23PM (#49203466)
You just said there's no reason the government should care to allow data center construction. Any DC, not just AI DCs.
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Re:Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:33PM (#49203549)
No I didn't...

I just said it's not relevant to "the lamenting that the US is losing industrial capacity".

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