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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very interesting bit. I want to note something important. Thank you to @fiftyplusone.news for this in the newsletter today. Note how honest and principled poll respondents are and therefore how resistant to sneaky manipulation of language in a poll. Great illustration I’ll explain.

• A polling experiment from Echelon Insights (Sept. 17 - 21, 2026) tested how voters responded to different language around data centers. Half of respondents were asked if they supported a data center in their community, and the other half were asked if they supported a "server farm." With the data center language, voters were opposed by a margin of 40 percentage points, 65 to 25. But with the server farm language, opposition shrank to a margin of 22 percentage points, 50 to 28. Also

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hiding what’s going on (a public debate about the social environmental and quality of life impacts of hyperscale data centres) with the antiquated and quaint term “server farm” FOOLS nobody. Support goes from 25 to 28. That’s it. Everyone else is either principled and consistent in opposition…

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