You’re still making the “I don’t fly, so I don’t want to pay for airports”. I wonder if your opposition to taxes that support data centers isn’t coloring your assessment of the technologies and risks.
Your airport comparison completely collapses for two very simple reasons:
1. Airports Are Paid For By The People Who Use Them
Airports are funded through user fees, ticket taxes, landing fees, and passenger facility charges. When someone buys an airline ticket, they pay for the airport. Local seniors who do not fly are not getting hit with higher monthly electric bills to subsidize a private airline or build corporate executive lounges.
2. An Electric Bill Is Not A Tax
Confusing a monthly power bill with a tax shows how little you understand this issue. Electric utilities are guaranteed monopolies providing an essential service to homes. When a power company spends billions expanding its grid to feed massive corporate server farms, those construction expenses are added to baseline electric rates. That means local retirees pay higher monthly light bills just to keep their lights on and air conditioning running.
3. Practical Knowledge vs. Blind Faith
Assessing tech risks based on decades of hands-on experience in computing and AI is not bias. It is called due diligence. What is actually biased is blindly defending multi-trillion-dollar corporations and insisting that regular working families and retirees should happily cover Big Tech's power grid expenses.
If giant tech companies want to build massive server facilities, they should pay 100% of their own power generation and grid connection costs through user fees, just like airlines pay for airports. Forcing regular homeowners to subsidize corporate utility overhead on their monthly electric bill is not public infrastructure. It is corporate welfare.