Someone make this guy a middle manager

Nope. It’s not a translation; the article is from an Australian news site. Australia also has a healthcare system called Medicare, which has no relation to the US’s far shittier Medicare. The portmanteau of “medical” and “care” is apparently a zinger across countries.

Article without “login or create account” popup: https://unwall.app/www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-doesnt-get-why-you-hate-ai/

Point out that data centers don’t bring real benefit to the community. Unlike a factory, they don’t create lasting jobs, only temporary construction positions. (And honestly? once the AI bubble pops I’m not convinced there will be any demand for large data centers.)

Is the water usage thing debunked? Data centers need cooling. There are a different ways to cool them, but water-cooled seems to be more common. (Likely it’s cheaper to build.) Regardless of whether AI uses absurd amounts of water compared to other tech, a data center will reduce the amount of water available to the community, and depending on your area that could turn people against a data center.

Power consumption is a big one. Data centers need a lot of power, and that will drive up consumer rates as A) they increase demand while supply lags and/or B) electric companies build new power plants to meet the demand, then raise rates to recoup costs. Bring up the actual impact on people: higher electric and gas bills.

I haven’t heard anything like that?? I use realdebrid. I just renewed my subscription with them.

*There and *to. (Sorry, I can’t not correct spellings. They grate on me like nails on a chalkboard.)

I moved to stremio because sites keep getting taken down, and it’s worked well so far

I use stremio+torrentio and it’s recently-ish stopped working when I use (any, as far as I can tell) VPN server :/

Not an answer to your question, but how are you using stremio with a vpn?

I use stremio+realdebrid+torrentio. Realdebrid doesn’t, as far as I know, work while using a vpn, but if there’s a way around that I’d love to know.