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Why Is the Reaction to Data Centers Really About a Machine Extracting People's Lives?
at 42:25
Answer
The overreaction treats data centers as the physical manifestation of a digital world people feel is bad for them. They feel a machine is coming and extracting them, extracting their life forces, while companies harvest their time, their attention, and their data, and the data center is the nexus of that.
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