<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # When somebody says ‘stop the data centers,’ ask... > When somebody says ‘stop the data centers,’ ask what else they are willing to stop with them. Protein modeling, materials discovery, climate simulation, genomics, drug design, cancer research, robotics, national laboratories, scientific modeling, defensive cyber operations, and the next generation of medicine all consume computation. You do not get to dynamite the laboratory because you dislike one experiment. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “When somebody says ‘stop the data centers,’ ask what else they are willing to stop with them. Protein modeling, materials discovery, climate simulation, genomics, drug design, cancer research, robotics, national laboratories, scientific modeling, defensive cyber operations, and the next generation of medicine all consume computation. You do not get to dynamite the laboratory because you dislike one experiment.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-somebody-says-stop-laboratory-dislike-experiment ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->