▲ 318 ▼ $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year (arstechnica.com) submitted 5 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 8 points 5 months ago (2 children) Good riddance if its a AI datacenter permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) You can't tell whether it's an Ai datacenter or one that merely holds and protects your health data and DMV records. Or a mix. The criteria needs to not be the PURPOSE of a DC, since that's impossible to gauge before or after the build, but the build of the DC. no water cooling ya pay for your power no fucking jet engines outside noise bylaws strictly enforced You know, like everyone else. One of my contracts is with a gov adjacent org. I know they've got your personal info - the stuff like your DMV recs - kept very safely in a datacenter somewhere. It's safe, reliable, and has great data connections. Tear these down and ... what? Back to paper in an office somewhere with no backup? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago How about number of GPUs as a metric. The more, the worse the datacenter? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) You can't tell whether it's an Ai datacenter or one that merely holds and protects your health data and DMV records. Or a mix. The criteria needs to not be the PURPOSE of a DC, since that's impossible to gauge before or after the build, but the build of the DC. no water cooling ya pay for your power no fucking jet engines outside noise bylaws strictly enforced You know, like everyone else. One of my contracts is with a gov adjacent org. I know they've got your personal info - the stuff like your DMV recs - kept very safely in a datacenter somewhere. It's safe, reliable, and has great data connections. Tear these down and ... what? Back to paper in an office somewhere with no backup? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago How about number of GPUs as a metric. The more, the worse the datacenter? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago How about number of GPUs as a metric. The more, the worse the datacenter? permalink fedilink source parent