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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Genuinely baffled by people who sincerely believe that being against AI data center development means you're a NIMBY. Might as well call the Standing Rock protesters NIMBYs too. A data center is not a house or park. It doesn't improve the community. It's purely infrastructure for extracting value.

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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's hugely bad-faith bullshit, guys on here pretending "hosting Netflix uses exactly as much power as Claude" and thinking nobody will catch on Bud come the everlovingfuck on, you KNOW that's nonsense, you're just addicted to defending rich people because a leftist made fun of your fit

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Elif Eralp 🎃👻 @vonneudeck.com · 07/05/2026

Remember the classic meaning of NIMBY, where it is about things that provide services most people use to a certain degree but nobody wants it in their backyard. A data centre is more like a power plant or a rail yard or a sewage treatment facility in that way

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Said this the other night when annoyed by it all, mostly holds up bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Ryan W Enslow@ryanwenslow.bsky.social

NIMBY should be a term for people who see something good for society, and often approve of its existence, as long as it is not near or otherwise effecting them directly I don’t think applies at all when something is actively bad for everyone

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

And they spew forever chemicals (pfas) into communities. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/data-...

sierraclub.org

Data Centers Have a PFAS Problem

While air and noise pollution are common concerns, little is known about PFAS contamination from the AI buildout

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 07/05/2026

people defend the weirdest shit

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Seán MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Well the unspoken bit of nimbyism is the “yes but” that prefaces “nimby” These ai data centres don’t even have that yes

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Vax Power @vaxdpower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The crux of NIMBYism is that you DO want something, you just don't want it "in MY backyard" Opposing the very idea of something is not NIMBY behavior.

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Djoran Keil @djorankeil.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

They are when they say, "We don't want it HERE... anywhere else is fine!"

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Dr. Bread @dr-bread.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

it aint an issue who's backyard it is, its a call to prevent flagrant waste

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density's child @foxdog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yeah, ofc these awful people would use more bad faith framing to ruin things for everyone. The world is owned by the biggest lowlifes and the people can't stop infighting enough to stop them.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

and it doesn't provide as many jobs as 1-2 small restaurants not to mention, you can't eat it

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j @lowercase.name · 07/05/2026

it's a parking lot in terms of actual utility and i don't even mean that metaphorically even assuming a.i. holds this use rate (lmfao), we have more data centers than we have reasons to have data centers. any new ones are going to be empty foundation on land that could've done something useful

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squirrel @jwbates.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

this thought just popped into my head so of course i have to send it right away without thinking more about it — what if data centers *were* a public good? i’m not talking about these gpu monstrosities, but like publicly available compute infrastructure for local community and business use?

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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

When a single data center uses twice the electricity of every household in Texas combined, it's in everyone's backyard.

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austinzheng.bsky.social @austinzheng.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It’s just the bad-faith semantic widening AI folks love so much. AI is awful chatbots until it’s also the highly specialized ML systems used in cancer research. NIMBY is not wanting affordable housing until it’s also not wanting a gigantic economic parasite making your power bills unaffordable.

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