From Elon about this issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeOJC_ycJAQ

Elon Musk urges the G20 to tread softly on regulating tech and AI, saying European-style rules inhibit innovation. Musk also defends building data centers to meet the needs of the AI revolution, amid a growing backlash against their construction in the United States ahead of midterm elections later this year. The Tesla and SpaceX chief was participating virtually in a tech-focused G20 meeting in North Carolina amid a global debate on how governments should address the dangers and promise of artificial intelligence. Musk also says that in ten years there will be at least a billion humanoid robots and that they "will be more productive than all humans combined."

On 9/1/2026 at 2:22 AM, bannork said:

they could become “backwards and poor” if they block one of his administration’s key economic priorities.

Or they could become "backwards and poor" if they DON'T block. Let the affected public decide, not the billionaire tech companies.

remember the days before internet time wasting when you did usefull things insted of watching tictoc ,now your brain turned to sludge

8 hours ago, G-String said:

Does that mean that I'm a bot? Are you operating with a brain?

It's normal for a human to have thoughts and to express them. Do I need to limit my post in order to satisfy you?

Tell the bot creator to upset your script.

9 hours ago, CallumWK said:

I tried to beat you at your own game, though I'm sure I never succeed in that.

incoherent much, lol.

On 8/31/2026 at 8:36 PM, HappyExpat57 said:

Big C is having a sale on senses of humor. You should pick one up.

You're like a child who insists they're just joking when confronted about their inappropriate behavior.

20 hours ago, TedG said:

Check out Ashburn, VA.

If that's supposed to be a positive comment, it's not. I used to live in Reston, Va., from 1975 to 2010. Years ago, in the 60s and 70s, Reston was considered a rather far out suburb from Washington, DC. It was a 'new town', built from scratch, and struggled at first as it was seen to be a long commute--at that time. The Ashburn area of Loudoun County, even farther out, was beautiful and mostly country.

Then, in the 1980s and 1990s, Loudoun County's population exploded, doubling in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, it was the fastest growing county in the US. Lots of new, expensive housing was built for high-paid government workers and government-related workers. In 2007, Loudoun County was ranked the richest county in the US. Note, that was a number of years before most of the data centers were starting to be built in the Ashburn area.

So, you don't have to have data centers to keep from 'ending up poor'. Nice place to live, back then, Ashburn--at one point I thought about moving there. When I read the current description, it doesn't seem so nice, with the hundreds of data centers it now has. The data centers seem to have polarized the town, with some residents for them, some against, some moving out, some being bought out, and many questioning the pros and cons.

1 minute ago, newnative said:

If that's supposed to be a positive comment, it's not. I used to live in Reston, Va., from 1975 to 2010. Years ago, in the 60s and 70s, Reston was considered a rather far out suburb from Washington, DC. It was a 'new town', built from scratch, and struggled at first as it was seen to be a long commute--at that time. The Ashburn area of Loudoun County, even farther out, was beautiful and mostly country.

Then, in the 1980s and 1990s, Loudoun County's population exploded, doubling in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, it was the fastest growing county in the US. Lots of new, expensive housing was built for high-paid government workers and government-related workers. In 2007, Loudoun County was ranked the richest county in the US. Note, that was a number of years before most of the data centers were starting to be built in the Ashburn area.

So, you don't have to have data centers to keep from 'ending up poor'. Nice place to live, back then, Ashburn--at one point I thought about moving there. When I read the current description, it doesn't seem so nice, with the hundreds of data centers it now has. The data centers seem to have polarized the town, with some residents for them, some against, some moving out, some being bought out, and many questioning the pros and cons.

The largest concentrations of datacenter in the world is Loudoun Country and Prince William country, which was fueled by the dot com boom.

On 9/2/2026 at 12:07 AM, HolmesEquivelant said:

How’s it working out?

So you post a pic of a windmill either under construction or decommission to prove just what point 3 card?

Ah I geddit: your inference is that they are ugly and spoil the vista. Well, if you’re from a western country, I bet your ancestors, during the mid 1800s, railed against those “ugly” pylons of the National Grid which delivered power into virtually every home eh?

Jeez, you have the cheek to infer that the forward looking left’s enthusiasm for solar power and wind farms and renewable energy in general is wrong!

In UK, opposition to these data centres is growing and it ain’t nimbyism. It’s fear of power failures, water shortages and loss of green pastures.

1 hour ago, Red Forever said:

I bet your ancestors, during the mid 1800s, railed against those “ugly” pylons of the National Grid which delivered power into virtually every home eh?

Not in the 1800's they didn't!

Electricity pylons were first used in the early 20th century, with the earliest steel towers appearing around 1903 in the US, and the first UK pylon erected in 1928 in Scotland!