Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI

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• CaptMurica@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hate that guy and am not paid to do so.

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t protesters show up in person?
  How could they be AI?

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  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He went a step further, suggesting the online backlash isn’t entirely organic. “If you look at the social media around the Utah proposal, much of it is AI-generated,” he said, calling that “hypocritical.”

    Sounds like he is blaming online opposition as AI. The protesters in person are ‘paid actors’ or something.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Okay. The protesters aren’t AI, just the memes.

      And I should point that hypocrisy doesn’t mean wrong.

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• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In a post on X and an accompanying video, O’Leary, also known as Mr. Wonderful, said concerns about the project — including its impact on air, water use, heat, and noise — are well understood by his team.

  “I’m actually the only developer of data centers on earth that graduated from environmental studies, so I’m pretty aware of what these concerns are,” he said in the clip, posted Tuesday.

  Paul Morris, executive director of Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority, which is overseeing the project, said at an April 24 board meeting that the data center is expected, once completed, to generate and consume more than twice the amount of energy currently used across the state of Utah.

  The “Stratos” project in Utah will be powered by natural gas from the nearby Ruby Pipeline, according to the data center’s publicly available fact sheet

  So, if you believe him, he knows the impacts, he just doesn’t care? More than 2x the power of the rest of the state and powered by fossil fuels? Love that!

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My AI won’t be used for nefarious manipulative purposes, it’s just all these other people that do that, I’m the good guy…

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “I call anything I dislike AI.” Is becoming an obnoxious trope. It a wide range of contexts.

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• cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Someone needs to hit this clown with their boat.

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