Yeah, past experiences with a wonderproject that actually turns out to be meh may very well be part of it. Especially if it’s an older person.

Speaking of pollution, the whole “wifi/5G causes cancer” thing is still out there too, and might be conflated with a datacenter.

No, but appreciating what a big generic building does could require education.

If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.

Yes, they’re designed and built by illiterate cavemen. /s

Like, obviously you know engineers do that, and are educated and well compensated. It seems like you’ve drifted off to a different argument here.

The rich are also more educated. Lemmy hates AI, but other upper-middle-class types might just see a datacenter as a big box full of cool technology.

To plumbers and cashiers, it’s more of a new-fangled abomination we don’t need.

From the article:

Because of the complexities of predicting which characters a user may want to type next, especially in logographic languages like Chinese, IMEs often offer “cloud-based” prediction services which reach out over the network. Enabling “cloud-based” features in these apps means that longer strings of syllables that users type will be transmitted to servers elsewhere.