| ▲ | 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. | ||