Facing NIMBY: Industry experts and lawmakers are pushing back against "disinformation" about data centers, arguing that they are vital for American jobs and technological leadership.
People don’t like being told their concerns are unreasonable by the gang threatening to destroy their livelihoods. The post Some Obvious Points About AI appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Some Obvious Points About AI People don’t like being told their concerns are unreasonable by the gang threatening to destroy their livelihoods. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Freddie DeBoer in a Monday Substack post noticed a tic among advocates for more aggressive home-building policies (“YIMBYs,” for “Yes in My Back Yard,” in contrast to “NIMBYs,” for “Not in My Back Yard”). When confronted with opposition, these YIMBYs dismiss the possibility that the other side may have good-faith reasons of its own, instead resorting to ridicule and abuse. DeBoer…Open
There’s nothing wrong with caring about your backyard. The post Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Lookin’ Out Your Backdoor There’s nothing wrong with caring about your backyard. Say the powers-that-be determine to site something truly noxious—a radioactive waste dump, a halfway house for child molesters, a data center—in your neighborhood. (These almost inevitably will be government projects or enabled by corporate welfare and subsidies to developers.) You protest. Instead of meeting your sincere remonstrations with arguments, you will be sneeringly called a NIMBY—a Not in My Backyard obstructionist. This epithet can be disorienting. Not in My Backyard? Well, yeah—not in my backyard. What’s wrong with caring…Open
ICE is on a multi-billion-dollar quest for new immigration detention facilities, but they're increasingly facing pushback from an unlikely foe: Republicans. Why it matters: The Trump administration has prioritized investing tens of billions of dollars to increase how many people it can hold in immigration detention, and ICE has a limited amount of time to spend it. - While Republicans may back the president's immigration blitz on a national level, they've been leading voices of local pushback against ICE's warehouse expansion while hinting at an old refrain: not-in-my-backyard. The big picture: Republican elected officials in Mississippi, New Hampshire , Tennessee and beyond have fought proposed facilities in their states. - New…