Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial
Washington Post Evan Halper
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@bgurley
Bill Gurley
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I don't know why you need to point to “nefarious accounts” to understand AI backlash. The founder of the leading model company just flew to Europe to hold a press conference with the Pope & said all the same negative things. The caller is in the house.
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@washingtonpost
@washingtonpost
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“Shark Tank” star Kevin O'Leary claimed “nefarious accounts out of the country” linked to China were driving the backlash to the construction of his data center in Salt Lake City, by flooding Utah with false claims in a foreign-backed influence campaign. https://www.washingtonpos…
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@jeiting
Jacob Eiting
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@Aswanth_256 “into a crop field” is so clearly ESL writing, pretty sure there is some foreign campaign going on, don't think it's a state sponsored psyop, probably more just engagement farming for some other purpose there is a legit grassroots opposition though, so it's complicat…
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@jeiting
Jacob Eiting
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The amount of data center generated Facebook slopaganda against data centers is breathtaking [image]
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@jeiting
Jacob Eiting
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@jasonlk almost certainly the same kind of organized influence campaigns we've seen before for other divisive issues, not speculating on motives but feels very astroturfed nobody would ever say “a crop field”...
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Tamara Kneese, Ph.D.
Tamara Kneese, Ph.D.
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I'm quoted in this article about data center opposition, but the best quote is definitely from Representative Justin J. Pearson: …
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
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“'This is like gaslighting 101,' Kyle Schmidt, a three-time Trump voter who organized neighbors to fight a Google data center outside Tulsa, said of the suggestion by O'Leary and the Trump administration that campaigns like his are part of a foreign plot.”