Any FReepers haven't seen this movie, I strongly recommend it.
Prepare to be enraged at how accurately the filmmaker captures the total retardation that half the country devolved to in 2020.
Posted on 04/07/2026 4:52:25 PM PDT by Libloather
A terrifying attack on an Indianapolis city councilman’s home has ignited fears that mounting opposition to the data centers that power artificial intelligence is taking an increasingly violent turn.
Ron Gibson, who is serving his third term on the Indianapolis City-County Council, said someone fired 13 shots into his front door early Monday – and left a handwritten note that said “NO DATA CENTERS”.
That was just days after Gibson attended a Metropolitan Development Commission meeting to support a data center project, one the developer said would be used at least in part for AI, in a local neighborhood — drawing boos from attendees when he stepped up to speak about the jobs it could bring, according to a CBS News report.
“Just steps from where those bullets struck is our dining room table, where my son had been playing with his Legos the day before,” Gibson said. “That reality is deeply unsettling.”
Opposition to data centers has escalated rapidly over the past year, according to a November report by the Soufan Center, a security-focused research group. The hulking facilities have become lightning rods for fears that AI is poised to eliminate jobs, even as the data centers themselves threaten to jack up electricity and water bills.
Last week, a data center developer in California alleged in a lawsuit that a group of eco-activists orchestrated a vicious online attack that led to calls for “public executions” and Luigi Mangione-inspired death threats.
In December, a city council meeting in Port Washington, Wis., ended with police cuffing and dragging off a group of middle-aged women who derailed a hearing on a data center project, local news footage shows. The women were cited for disorderly conduct, according to reports.
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Like a true "journalism" major, the author who wrote this piece doesn't get American sayings.
The term pumping rounds or pumping shots usually refers to a pump rifle or a pump shotgun. While it is possible, I doubt in this situation that someone was pumping away with an old .22, or reloading a pump shotgun to fire off 13 rounds.
“Ron Gibson, who is serving his third term on the Indianapolis City-County Council, said someone fired 13 shots into his front door early Monday morning”. The Bangles, I couldn’t resist, ‘Manic Monday’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w&list=RDSsmVgoXDq2w&start_radio=1
Why, all of a sudden, do we need all these huge datacenters all over the country?
That is a specious comparison and you know it.
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Free navigation of the seas is literally the reason for the founding of the Marine Corps and US Navy.
The seas do not “belong” to us, nor do they belong to Iran. Why would a Chinese tanker pay the US to navigate this area? And why wouldn’t the Chinese do the same for us passing through the Taiwan Strait?
There are a lot of people who support every scheme this President comes up with. This one is sketchy and dangerous at best.
I was obviously responding to another Thread. My mistake.
Is it?
Shooting up a Data Center to get back at AI is exactly like the people throwing pieces of wood into the water powered/steam powered looms. Or insisting that Radio dramas would still be relevant in the days of TV. Or that fax machines and email would never replace couriers and regular mail (a personal favorite of mine.)
AI is here. It’s not just coming. It might not be something YOU use in your daily life, but it is being used to deliver products and services to you today…and it will only becomes more significant over the next couple of years.
Shooting data centers in Ohio is not going to stop that.
It was a nice post nonetheless.
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Right now, just across the bridge in WV, a ginormous one is set to destroy the already struggling hillbillies.
Again, FAI.
Any FReepers haven't seen this movie, I strongly recommend it.
Prepare to be enraged at how accurately the filmmaker captures the total retardation that half the country devolved to in 2020.
They’re sending US marshals out with surveyors in my state because the billies don’t cotton to eminent domain running data center power towers through their woods.
The world worked just fine with brick and mortar businesses and the humans who made their livings by working in them.
FAI and F kneeling before ZOD too.
Some of us still remember and live in the Before Time.
Unfortunately I do not have nor can I afford HBO on my Roku.
I will keep the movie in mind. Thank you.
So you hid out in a cabin in the woods and skipped the entire COVID/BLM insanity that overtook half the country in 2020 (and which the other half had to endure)?
Must've been nice.
They were summarily ignored.
https://therealwv.com/2026/03/23/locals-speak-out-against-4-billion-data-center-in-berkeley-county/
There's a reason Hollywood completely ignored it for awards, which should be of interest to the rest of us.
And, yes, a data center plays into the theme of the film.
No.
I simply disregarded the mass stupidity, refused the jabs, ignored the propaganda, lived my life without a mask and laughed at the poor easily panicked lemmings.
It wasn’t that hard at all.
The only “hardship “ was having to endure the idiotic and wholly useless social restrictions.
Where I am, there are enough likeminded people who did as I did so I at least had a pool of rational people with whom I could interact.
*addendum
I actually do live in a log house in the woods.
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