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Post5:39 PM - 1 day ago#501

Im pretty left wing, don't read or listen to any of the sites you mention and I think Data centers in STL would be great. Some reasonable limits sure, but to ban them is a massive mistake IMO. 

Imagine if we could do anything like this story for people. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/l ... venue.html

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Post6:04 PM - 1 day ago#502

ok? i didn't say that anybody who supports them is buying the propaganda. i said that there is no wide-spread propaganda campaign driving the overwhelming opposition to data centers. that is a fabrication. what are the reasonable limits you propose? and how do you propose to enforce them once these multibillion dollar monoliths backed by oligarchs have been deployed all over the place and all of our infrastructure modified to support them? i can't read the NYT article (not that I trust much coming out of the NYT these days, either) but short-term bonuses in exchange for long-term environmental and community destruction sounds like exactly the kind of deception i would expect from these vultures.

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Post6:37 PM - 1 day ago#504

The data center backlash is huge. But the boom is bigger. Even as local bans mount, capacity keeps expanding at a dizzying pace. And that's not changing anytime soon. The buildout will continue until morale improves (or demand for compute collapses) 

https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/2094783223695892579

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