Academia and the labs both possess an insular culture that is indifferent/hostile to the tastes/interests of regular people - while being completely dependent on regular people’s goodwill. The data center fight crystallizes why this isn’t sustainable. zachill.substack.com/p/a-few…
Zac Hill (@zdch)
An underrated dimension of the whole Data Center Fight (tm) is that the conditions - for the first time in generations - are actually favorable to ‘regular people’ who want to strike back at ‘the elite’:
open.substack.com/pub/zachil…
— https://nitter.net/zdch/status/2085397188243607810#m