Really Torn Data
Masley has made a name for himself as data centers' most persistent defender, so the joke lands: he is simultaneously an AI-risk worrier and someone who relishes dunking on land and water objections from local opponents. The humor points at a genuine tension in the discourse — if you believe advanced AI is coming, compute buildout is the whole game, which puts doomers and NIMBYs on a collision course he usually mocks.… more
The "farmers to lose" punchline nods to the recurring fights over rural siting, where data centers have mostly won. Funny, and truer to the compute policy debate than most earnest takes on it.
I'm really torn on data centers, because I'm terrified of advanced AI, but I also need farmers to lose
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X — Andy Masley
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