ABC News99%

Backlash growing against AI data centers 97%

7/19/2026, 2:40:14 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 34 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 33.9% saturation with 116 hits. Analysis detected 1,377 faulty-reasoning hits from 342 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95% and a BS Rank of 97% (645 of 18,402 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.50% of the video peer group.

Next night, the backlash against AI data centers is growing with protests from coast to coast in dozens of states today. 
The issue uniting many Americans across the political divide. 
Here's ABC's Alex Presha. 
>> Tonight, a growing debate over data centers as a number of demonstrations play out across the country. 
From Atlanta to Berkeley, California. 
>> We want to slow down AI data center development. 
We want to slow down AI in general and stop big tech from infringing on our local communities. 
>> The explosion of data center construction projects, the byproduct of the AI and cloud computing boom. 
That skyrocketing growth also prompting new scrutiny as communities housing these centers say they are bearing new burdens of heightened water and power usage. 
This week, New York became the first state to halt construction of new large data centers. 
The governor imposing a one-year moratorium. 
In Granbury, Texas, just outside of Fort Worth, residents have filed petitions to recall their mayor and several city council members after the city annexed property for a new data center site. 
>> Somehow you have to communicate to the local politicians 
we're really upset and your job is at risk. 
>> The debate now making its way to Washington. 
President Trump blasted the move by New York's governor. 
Trump touting one of the biggest driving forces in the future for jobs are data centers. 
Both the taxes and jobs amount to liquid gold. 
But even members of his own party acknowledge regulations may be needed. 
>> While there are real issues to discuss and there are regulations to put in place, New York's decision to do an outright ban is only going to negatively impact its economy. 
>> Well, and ahead of this fall's midterm election, a number of Democrat and 
Republican candidates are framing their campaigns around data centers. 
In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, only 14% of Americans support a data center being built within their community. 
What? 
>> All right, Alex Presha for us tonight. 
Confirmation Bias
3.5%
Anchoring Bias
5.3%
Availability Heuristic
24%
Representativeness Heuristic
11.4%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
14%
Framing Effect
26%
Loss Aversion
2.6%
Status Quo Bias
2.9%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
2.6%
Pessimism Bias
12.3%
Negativity Bias
33.9%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
5.3%
Actor-Observer Bias
2.6%
In-Group Bias
5.3%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
5.3%
Halo Effect
8.8%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
16.7%
Primacy Effect
7.6%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
2.6%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
19.6%
False Dilemma
14%
Slippery Slope
14.6%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
33.9%
Red Herring
6.7%
Bandwagon
12.3%
Appeal to Emotion
10.5%
Begging the Question
9.4%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
27.5%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
22.2%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
1.5%
Anecdotal
21.6%
No True Scotsman
3.5%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
12.3%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0.3%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

342 words analyzed.

Analysis

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