Please pause the data center buildout

4•DaveZale•1h ago

What I am seeing here in Southern Colorado so suddenly is very serious. Dark brown skies to the southeast. Fires jumping from Utah to Colorado. Fireworks banned for the 4th of July.

Why all this data center mania. Okay, I get it. Each and every one of us has data that is worth a few thousand bucks, that we give away for free, so that data brokers in the gleaming towers of SF, Chitown, NYC, or in swampy areas of Florida can sell it all to the highest bidder.

But please think about what you are doing to the US and the world. From what I am seeing, we could all go up in flames.

Thank for your attention to this matter

- Someone who is in the bottom 2% of energy consumption.

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toomuchtodo•1h ago

This is like asking the paperclip maximizer to not maximize politely. Go tell your elected officials if they do not inhibit data centers, they’ll be recalled. Go straight to the point of leverage. “You can just do things.”

Utah Senate President Loses Primary After Data Center Backlash - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/j-stuart-adams-utah-se... | https://archive.ph/MMot6 - June 24th, 2026

DaveZale•1h ago

Sure, and that's like asking an AIPAC bribed congress to stop the killing around you-know-who's neighbors. Money talks. But your idea is worth a try. Actually both of those ideas. Thanks. But I'll tell ya- over the past 15 years we just have waaaaay too much money here in America. The purists say "we don't print money" to which I reply "Bullshit" - we let banks print the money. And once you have all of these trillions floating around, they find pockets to fall into, influence to buy. But, your suggestion is good. If there are no voices heard, nobody has a voice. Gotta start somewhere. Thank you and stay safe.

OH JUST SAW that link.. thank you. So these forces are as strong as AIPAC. Good to know. FWIW, I try to be grassroots, just enlightening people one by one. Most don't want the truth. They want convenience, likes, thumbs up and worthless confirmation bias. But I'll try.

toomuchtodo•59m ago

Anti AIPAC candidates have done very well over the last few months, and I expect this trend to continue. Elections have consequences. As long as young voters keep voting and old voters keep aging out, I expect progress to continue.

https://www.trackaipac.com/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-...

DaveZale•49m ago

absolutely right. I am not antisemitic. All my career so many of my bosses and employees and coworkers were jewish. Because it was LA! And that is what really horrifies me. That they will all get impacted by all of this equating of zionism and judaism. What a huge lie. But the rampant destruction of innocent people repeatedly over long time spans is just severe mental illness. It's not genocidal. The real semites are the Palestinians! The diaspora jews are from Eastern europe. Our minds have been seriously fucked by this all. And tens of thousands of people get killed or displaced yearly. Can't they just stop?

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