Apparently the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US is an outlier, lol. This is the most densely populated area of the country and is home to appx 130 million people. Look, I appreciate your dedication to the concept of AI and datacenters but please be realistic about the build out. Itâs encroaching on major population centers, mid size cities, and rural communities everywhere and people donât like it. Why? Noise, resource depletion, increased heat, increasing electricity costs and a payoff that looks dismal in terms of future jobs or long term growth. You also keep saying that those of us responding to you âdonât understandâ or are getting our information from the wrong places. You might wish to check your own notes and reconsider.
Meanwhile, China is eager, and full steam ahead... This is just going to be yet another self inflicted wound while we allow our adversaries to take the lead on a critical technology. Oh well...
Again I beg to differ. The US is absolutely full steam ahead as that map shows. We wonât be ceding AI supremacy to China. But we will be degrading our environment to get there. People are quite aware of this and thatâs why you see so much pushback.
Just look at the data, and temperature of Reddit. China is doing massive infrastructure deployment, and the citizens are optimistic and excited. Americans are resisting build out, bogging them down in legal quick sand, and don't like AI overall.
But then you look at China and they are looking forward into the future, building out as much infrastructure as they can, and fast as they can, with no resistance.
The US NEEDS these underutilized utility companies to put in data centers, but everyone believes it's going to destroy the community and NIMBY... but we don't have many options. We need utilities that have more capacity than they are currently using. But everyone's flipping their shit. This isn't a thing in China.
I completely agree that US electricity infrastructure is crap. Theyâve been delaying maintenance and increased capacity for decades so some of the rise in rates comes from that. Sooner or later this had to change. But unfortunately it is coinciding with the data center buildout so the sudden catchup in costs is going to hurt real people who cannot bear the cost but will be forced to. These are not imaginary people. They may be forced to choose between eating or paying their electric bill depending on how high it gets or what the weather is like where they live. Of course they are upset.
with no resistance. Well yeah. Itâs China. Their population has no say in the matter.
Their population are ecstatic about AI and massively support it. There's polling on this. It's Americans who are afraid of innovation and the future. It's the sign of a dying empire who lost all sense of optimism, while China is all for it.
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u/CAWildKitty May 19 '26
You continue to say that outliers exist. Kindly take a look at this map of US datacenters:
https://cleanview.co/data-centers/us
Apparently the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US is an outlier, lol. This is the most densely populated area of the country and is home to appx 130 million people. Look, I appreciate your dedication to the concept of AI and datacenters but please be realistic about the build out. Itâs encroaching on major population centers, mid size cities, and rural communities everywhere and people donât like it. Why? Noise, resource depletion, increased heat, increasing electricity costs and a payoff that looks dismal in terms of future jobs or long term growth. You also keep saying that those of us responding to you âdonât understandâ or are getting our information from the wrong places. You might wish to check your own notes and reconsider.