Literally their worst nightmare that their handpicked economists saying whatever their customers want them to are challenged.
This is the #1 reason they want Green gone. A PhD economist on city council is qualified to call BS on them.
The data center you’re allowing in your state is not to cure cancer, buddy!
There are socially productive use cases for computation of course, but we live in capitalist USA so 99% of what we get is AI slip, surveillance tech, weapons guidance, AI porn, & trying to make human workers unnecessary.
For the first time in a while, the ruling class has a coherent political project and it boils down toward building the machinery that is capable of insulating them fully from the rest of humanity so they can survive the coming climate apocalypse.
They got everything they wanted with the Portlandia boom but instead of making sure the city grew along with the population influx they just captured the profits and ignored the issues that come with growth.
The resulting housing crisis and COVID killed the bubble and now they have no ideas.
Wahhhhhh let us exploit you more. Wahhhh give us public money to go straight into our bank accounts. Wahhhh I don’t want to pay to have public services.
