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AI Haters

I keep seeing more and more people upset about AI and data centers, and I have to admit, some of the takes are fascinating.

Not “well-researched fascinating.”

More like “person yelling at the clouds from a phone connected to six cloud services” fascinating.

I’ve been around tech long enough to know more than the average person, but I’m still surprised by how little most people understand about the infrastructure behind the internet they use every day.

Data centers are not some brand-new villain that showed up because AI entered the chat. The videos, podcasts, apps, games, websites, cloud backups, streaming platforms, social media feeds, and endless doomscrolling we’ve all been using for years have been running through data centers the whole time.

AI just made the infrastructure more visible.

And that creates an uncomfortable conversation.

If we don’t want more data centers, then we probably need to make some choices. Do we want access to powerful tools like AI? Do we want endless entertainment on demand? Do we want every answer, video, app, and service available instantly, 24/7?

Because every minute online uses energy, hardware, cooling, storage, networking, and physical infrastructure.

The average person seems to want unlimited digital convenience, zero tradeoffs, no new infrastructure, and preferably all of it for free.

Which is a bold strategy.

Maybe the better conversation is not “data centers bad,” but “how do we build smarter systems, use technology more intentionally, and stop pretending the internet is powered by vibes?”

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