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fwlr 12 hours ago

They have pretty significant negative externalities in the communities they are built in, which would be reason enough.

They have historically tended to get approved through means verging-on “graft/corruption/lies” - the promised benefits don’t materialize, the costs are worse than initially claimed, the politicians who approve it seem to profit when their constituents don’t - this would also be reason enough.

And they’re the physical reification and arguably the Achilles heel of the otherwise nebulous and impossible-to-defy yet hugely disliked phenomenon of AI everywhere all of the time, which yet again would be reason enough (multiple times over - ethical concerns, environmental concerns, etc).

Compounding these many good reasons to dislike them, there also aren’t many (or any?) good reasons to actively like them.