Most couldn’t care less, and people like my dad has a rudimentary understanding of how the internet works anyway.
And the issue the US is having with data centers isn’t generally with infrastructure like hosting ones, but the mass build out of hyperscale AI data centers with no regard to available power, water, etc.
Yea… my super maga dad is all pissed off about data centers. Don’t think it would get him to vote dem, but it did sway his primary vote towards an anti DC candidate.
On the clipboard: It just looks to be legal sized ( like this one ). Growing up we had a couple of them (might have even come from the AF as my dad was in the service, and worked in Data Operations). The papers on the desk look to be legal (or some other non 8.5 x 11 format) as well.
And the smashed up bottom of the masonite leads me to believe that it’s just well used, so the bent clip isn’t unreasonable. It’s hard to tell, but the guy could just be holding a clipboard backwards, since the bottom edge kind of looks like broken masonite as well (but could be bent folio paper).
Not saying that it’s not AI, just that the clipboard doesn’t look unnatural to me, having had some roughly that size.
Edit: On her nametag. it’s probably just lighting. Those are engraved name tags, so the lights reflecting off of the plastic wouldn’t be unexpected. It appears to have a name “Hicks” on it, where most AI I see just has jumbles that kind of seem like letters.
I see this completely.
I’m in SC, and while we always vote in every election, I walked into the polling place yesterday feeling like I was doing my part, but that it wouldn’t have any effect in SC.
Was very happy to wake up wrong this morning.