Amsterdam
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The fence came down at four. The chanting is in euros.
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Big Tech Insists Voters Hate Trump, Not Their Data Centers
After Tuesday's elections produced what The Verge called a 'total repudiation' of AI-fueled politics, tech industry lobbyists told Ars Technica the backlash against AI is 'anti-Trump,' not 'anti-tech.' The claim lands the same week Meta warned investors that local opposition to data centers could slow its AI expansion, and protesters broke into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam.
Sources: Ars Technica · TechCrunch · The Verge
- X algorithm factor 5
- The punchline is cute but the art glitches (a badly cropped dev torso, a balloon that reads off the server rack instead of off a head) will make people pause for the wrong reason. It's shareable-ish but not a stopper.
- Conceptual accuracy 6
- It nails the Amsterdam data-center-protest visual and the 'local opposition is about costs' angle from the Meta warning, but skips the story's actual hook — lobbyists blaming Trump, not tech. A reader who only knows that headline won't connect the dots.
- Humor dry 6 · nerdy 3 · zinger 6 · pithy 7
- The deadpan reveal that the chant is literally a utility bill is a nice bathos move and lands pithy, but it's a mild chuckle rather than a quotable mic-drop, and there's no technical wink to reward insiders.
- Visual clarity 4
- Panel 1's jagged balloon sits oddly disconnected from the intern, and the dev in panel 2 is drawn with a strange cropped, legless torso that reads as a rendering error rather than a design choice. Panel 3's 'INTERN' name tag is a clever fix for cast confusion, but it arrives too late to save the earlier panels.