Flowersslop clashes over whether data center opposition hinges on voter ignorance
flowersslop · x · 2026-11-03
flowersslop pushes back on a common defense of data centers: when "the people" oppose them, defenders reply that people simply don't realize ChatGPT needs data centers. The author asks: how strong is an argument that depends on people being uninformed?
The screenshot shows the exchange with user Grumn, who argues rich people — not ordinary folks — drive data center buildout; flowersslop counters that ChatGPT has over a billion users and is the fastest-growing product in human history, so demand is real; Grumn insists using ChatGPT doesn't equal wanting data centers in the public mind. A microcosm of the ongoing debate over social acceptance of AI compute expansion.
More from AGI Musings
- Hot take: most AI slop is human slop with better grammar — AI is a multiplier — therealdanvega · 2026-11-03
- Naruto creator wrote 'in public' inside the manga, and that's what AI can't replace — marclou · 2026-11-03
- Could a Folding@home-style P2P network of idle GPUs collectively run and train LLMs? — lenicalicious · 2026-11-03
- Prime Intellect resident poses the RL frontier problem: how do you reward unverifiable knowledge work? — xeophon · 2026-11-03
- Tim Lee: Pretraining is imitation learning, post-training is reinforcement learning — binarybits · 2026-11-03
- Robot sims should prioritize accurate physics over visuals, turning sim creation into an auto-research loop — wellecks · 2026-11-03