Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”
Stop building them and people won’t break into them, problem solved.
YES, HAHAHAHA, YES! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, BOYS!
why not just burn it down or sabotage whatever’s been built?
So hey, guys…
I’m a huge fan of this protest, but climbing the boom of a crane without any safety gear is extremely fucking stupid.
Get a safety harness before you do this. They’re not that expensive. Hell, steal one from the site. But this gets people killed, like yourself.
Can’t fight for the cause if you’re dead.
Be brave, but be smart about it.
Climbing a crane isn’t free soloing El Cap.
Looking at the picture I think they may be harnessed.
they are. clearly visible in the full-sized image.
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As a former MSFT V Dash, yes, correct, very good.
This is fucking amazing.
Sounds like Amsterdam could use a windfall of bamboo…
How sweet will it be with all these idiot companies try to replace us with their shitty llm implementations, which will then have no connection because data centers were destroyed. I yearn for that day.
It’s just such a stupid fucking plan too. Like they’re absolutely massive and fragile structures that are going to be ridiculously simple for individuals or groups to vandalize or destroy them. Even if they heavily fortify and gaurd the data centers themselves there are so many people opposed and so many, many attack vectors to nullify them that they’d have to boil the frog slowly to actually succeed with their dumbass plan.
Not to mention millions of businesses pointing at them to burn an assload of power with every chatbot request. Massive massive waste.
Its fucking stupid. We have computer and computer programs for this. We are going backwards. But people are stupid and dont understand the abstract nature of any of that, so they just believe what billionaire owned media tells them which is " get our ai app now or youll be left behind!!!"
Consider me left, I missed the train, didn’t buy a ticket, never wanted the ticket, didn’t want to know about the ticket.
Yeah but we will be the old men yelling at clouds, just like the folks who scoffed when internet came into popularity ("why would I want that, I have a library and books for research. Why would you trust a random internet stranger ? This internet is ruining young peoples brains " etc. All stuff we are saying about ai now) Sadly we will die off and the young will only know slop.
I know there is some truth to this, as progression is the nature of things, I do have shreds of hope for a more star trek future where they really lean into the positive aspects and eventually the spare collective cognitive ability will be the goal, not money. Wind power if nothing but aesthetic. Geothermal and desalination. Solar farms. I can envision that future. I will not see that future.
One of the toughest things for me to empathize is how there are so many who simply can not or will not allow themselves to be seed planters, rather than simply forest admirers. How are the blinders so effective to what could be they allow themselves to actively destroy the tiny blue dot.
Anyway, got a little off topic there. I dont think knowledge scrapers and LLMs are what people claim them to be yet, it’s weird witnessing a bubble, it’s been weird watching a cult of personality develop and begin desolving.
I do think we are collectively on a “Grapes of Wrath” precipice. Hopefully it is not humanity itself on the vine.
I think lots of people do understand and many have their hearts in the right place but are being misled by all the billionaire owned media which is almost omnipresent. You and I are a minority freely communicating on an open platform.
To any teenagers deciding on a career path: learn how to be the person that repairs fiber optic cables after they are cut. You are going to have looooooooooots of available work for a long time.
The splice kits are so cool.
This is basic human decency. Well done.
Nice!
Please yes, come with molotovs too.
This is gonna be a baby+bathwater incident.
People know that datacenters
- existed before LLMs
- provide valuable safety and security for important data like health data and bank info and courts evidence
- don’t need to have jet turbines for power or water for cooling if they’re planned right
I worry this is gonna affect DCs and push orgs into shitty basement installations again where power and cooling and security isn’t cheap or easy and we’re gonna have more physical problems with shit like Nana’s prescription or cartel criminal cases.
Hyperscale GPU “gold rush” data center empire building is not at all the same thing as the types you are talking about. The problem is with the former. The scale. The speed. The arrogance. The damage. The grid instability. The resource theft. The illegal land destruction.
Lmao nice try scam Altman
Sure, asbestos if giving you cancer, but have you thought of its insulating properties, and to replace damaged asbestos immediately?
Sure, tetraetillead in fuel exposes us to lead, but have you thought how good of an anti-knocking agent it is, and that you shouldn’t live near busy roads?
Yes, won’t someone please think of the poor data centers in this trying time.
Your lemmy instance is hosted in a data center you twat. (Hetzner)
The irony level of you pissing and moaning about non-ai data centers WHILE USING ONE is off the chart.
Buddy, this here internet is a series of tubes in the cloud.
Lol “off the chart”…
Ppl are pissing and moaning about the egregious and unethical use and rise of data centers. Data centers do not serve the neighborhoods they are built in.
No one is (probably) seriously arguing for 0 data centers. As all data centers are not equal.
I guess I should have been more explicit in my flippant comment so as to not harm your opinions.
Does a simple Lenny comment need to be stored in a data center?
all true.
but we can’t have that level of nuance in such a thoroughly manipulated uninformed and frankly stupid society.
express your idea in terms of one sentence no clauses. anything more complex will be misunderstood.
I am a meat popsicle.
What did that do?
Well, it was the number one news story here in the Netherlands. The government also presented a tech strategy today, and so the responsible secretary gave an interview in an important news show tonight. They first showed a report about the protest and then immediately asked her for a response.
Will it change things? Maybe not directly, but at least the resistance is the topic of conversation now.
A data center? Here: https://www.environmentalhealthproject.org/post/the-dangers-of-data-centers
Nah, the banners.
It brought attention in the form of articles like this one
I guess.
Idk why this one was downvoted lmao.
On its own, it isn’t much. But anything bringing more attention to this shit adds up, and as we saw with the midterms, that matters
