# You Do Not Get to Dynamite the Laboratory Because You Dislike One Experiment by Bryant McGill > “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**, *The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “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.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill for [[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]]. - **Source article:** [[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]] — Bryant McGill identifies this article as the originating publication for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[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]] - **Article:** [[articles/STFU About AI and Water and Just Eat Your Burger|STFU About AI and Water and Just Eat Your Burger]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] ## 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, The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-you-do-not-get-to-dynamite-the-laboratory-because ```