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> soon to be powered by nuke-leer energy

Nuclear energy is excellent, and plenty of datacenters already do use nuclear energy. In California, we even get a breakdown of how much comes from what source on our bills. (It is still mostly oil and coal.)

> is a form of assymetric warfare

No, controlling all datacenters is. You should be supporting independent datacenters instead of decrying all datacenters unless you want the big tech companies to be the *only* ones that own datacenters, because they are the ones that are guaranteed not to care what you say. Here's #4 on the Top500 list as of last month: https://top500.org/system/180236/ .

During the 60s, hippies in Cambridge were protesting computers on the grounds that these were a mechanism for government control, and this sounds quaint to us because computers can be used by anyone, and in fact they are a force-multiplier for creative thought, so they have been as useful in fighting government control as they have been to the government that wanted to use them. Of course, people that understood computers were genuinely baffled by the protests.

Datacenters are fine.

> a fascist coming together of govt and megacorporation

Not what fascism is. I believe I have already sent you a copy of "The Vampire Economy" by Gunter Reimann. ( https://media.freespeechextremist.com/rvl/full/d8a98bb757305ae5ce1ccdba7bb565dc2c6a0b534870aebd044ebc958d97a7d6 )

You can say it is totalitarian, you can say that it is autocratic, you can say that it is repressive, despotic, whatever. It is not fascist. There are plenty of correct words for it, and correct words tend to be less contentious than incorrect words, aside from the broader effect of diluting the term.

> in many ways we are already dead, so this just makes us more dead, i guess

Well, that's gloomy, but I'd rather improve the situation than argue about the situation with you ever again. I've said what I said, I'm done discussing it. Thank you.