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The American public has soured even further on local data center development since the spring, new polling shows.

Three-quarters of Americans now say that they would oppose a new data center being built near where they live, according to a new Heatmap Pro poll conducted by Embold Research, and more than six in 10 Americans say they would strongly oppose such a facility.

That’s by far the most negative response since Heatmap Pro started asking Americans about their receptivity to data centers roughly a year ago.

If you can think of a major demographic of Americans, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t welcome a data center in their area. The shift against the facilities is represented across age, race, gender, income, party ID, and the rural-urban divide. Data centers are 43 points underwater with Republicans, 65 points underwater with independents, and 75 points underwater with Democrats.

Notably, local data centers are 63 points underwater with rural voters, a group that has skewed more Republican over the past decade. Urban and suburban voters are only a few points more supportive of the facilities.

What’s most remarkable is the pace of change: We’ve polled this same question four times in the past 12 months and haven’t altered its wording once — yet Americans have swung a remarkable 33 points against data centers in the intervening time. It’s a faster and deeper shift in American public opinion than I would have once thought possible on any issue.

It's pretty clear that the target audience of LLMs, for the most part, right from the start was intended to be the dumb, the lazy, the incapable and the uninformed.

Like, if you see who all the AI bros right now are, it's literally all that: lazy fucks who, prior to LLMs, couldn't get into presitigous areas such as being an artist or a software engineer. Why? Because they are lacking. It's normal - nobody is perfect, everybody lacks something. Not everyone has what it takes to become a successful artist, or a successful engineer, or a successful doctor and so on.

However, a large fraction of those incapable of breaking into these presitigous fields are ready to fake it till they make it. That's the key here. These people are anything but honest and hardworking and OpenAI and Anthropic knew that. They knew there's a colossal mass of lazy, incapable, fake people who just want to take the easy route to success, or rather, dream of there being an easy route to success. It's human nature, we all want there to be an easy way. The problem is, for some things, there simply isn't one.

LLMs are the circus that made this part of the population brainwashed into thinking this dream had come true. It makes sense - by definion their target audience, who are now called AI bros, are easy to brainwash, exactly because these companies are targeting the dumb, the lazy, the incapable and theuninformed. The world has ALWAYS been mostly comprised of such people, so it's no wonder that Anthropic and OpenAI had such an easy time selling this lie to the world. It really is no wonder - there are more than enough people to fall for it, that's their target audience.

If we follow the logic, the answer as to why the bubble still hasn't popped becomes pretty clear - because there are so many such people - the dumb, the lazy, the incapable and the uninformed. It's a group that easily comprises over half of the world's population.

They are gullible enough to think this "technology" is actually leading them somewhere nice, to a place of success, when in fact it's only leading them to even more retardation, to an irreversible loss of personal skills and cognitive ability, and to a new grave dependency that they didn't even see coming. Importantly, this shouldn't come as a surprise because, as I said already, by definition that's the kind of people these companies targeted to begin with. They have easily fallen for OpenAI's and Anthropic's plan. That's why the circus still hasn't crashed.

We finally arrive at today, when your average Joe has fallen so deeply for their lies that he thinks he has learnt to code, he thinks he has built projects, he SEES them "completed", with his own eyes, yet he asks me: Bro, why is that I know all this about coding and tech, but when I sit down to get work done, I actually can't get anything done by myself at all?

Peace,

A random engineer on the internet