This.

Primaries are almost always a circle jerk. Where the rubber meets road will be the general election, and I don't even have to look on Kashi/Polymarket to tell you how that's going to turn out in a +16 Trump district.

They'll elect a Republican

Why a republican? There's literally no difference between parties at this point. Pretending your actor is better is worse than loving your Sports Ball team ... at least sports fans understand it's a game.

Northern VA is a liberal utopia and there are data centers everywhere.

> A landfill may smell bad, but it's not using up the lion's share of available electric power in my town or using a big portion of available clean water.

Landfills sometimes do end up contaminating the groundwater.

Also, it's absolutely possible to cool data centers without using any water at all. You'll just use more electricity. The issue mostly that the water is cheaper than the electricity.

> Even in "best case" scenarios, they don't employ many people once they're constructed, and they use large amounts of resources -- which tend to be sold at discounted rates as part of the deals struck when they move into an area. Everyone else gets stuck covering any losses by way of rate increases.

> A landfill may smell bad, but it's not using up the lion's share of available electric power in my town or using a big portion of available clean water.

Whether "AI" is hype or will burst its bubble remains to be seen...nobody can be sure yet, but there are huge bets that it will persist in one form or another.

But your above comments are completely lacking any grounding in facts. At best they are something you read in some FUD newspaper article with an agenda against datacenters for some reason they can't really explain. I'll buy an argument that they make noise...chillers definitely do...but the rest is nonsense and factually untrue.

> The need for more data centers is questionable. If all this AI growth turns the corner and companies decide much of it was just overblown hype? Then those data centers will quickly wind back down again.

In the worst case, they'll add interior walls (and maybe add some windows to the exterior walls), and resell it as office space, residential space, factory space, retail distribution space, or even a community library. After all, floors built to support racks of equipment should handle the weight and distribution of stacks of books without breaking a sweat.

So the construction might be overkill for what they eventually get used for, but it's not like a newly built, solid building isn't going to find a use.

For extremists of all flavors, violence is always preferable to the voting booth.

> I have this great idea for a new TV show. The premise is simple. Just toss a liberal celebrity into the ring with a couple of Marines, and spend about an hour filming him getting the living shit beat out of him. Wouldn't it be great, every night you can turn on your TV and watch some loathsome parasite like Gavin Newsom or Chuck Schumer getting a Front Street Face Lift? If that's not a hit, I don't know what is!

I have this great idea for a new TV show. The premise is simple. Just toss a conservative cuck into the ring with a couple of grannies with umbrellas, and spend about five minutes filming him getting the living shit beat out of him. Wouldn't it be great, every night you can turn on your TV and watch some loathsome parasite like Donald Trump or Stephen Miller getting a Main Street Enucleation? If that's not a hit, I don't know what is!

Why would marines beat up a defenseless soy-boy? They defend the weak, even those who are ungrateful. It would be 40 minutes of the liberal screaming at the Marines and them just standing at attention?