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$4.8m data centre proposed in Katoomba (honisoit.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

The 3 sisters in Katoomba is an absolute spectacle of natural beauty.

Been there last year and it's absolutely stunning. I really hope the whole thing will be stopped somehow, would be a great shame for it to be destroyed just like that.

Profits? It’s not even financially sustainable.

Why is every other company doing this then? FOMO? I guess building up reliance on AI and then switching to a billing model that actually makes them money, but I can't see that working out too well considering the public opinion of AI worsens by the second.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    There is a lot of "woo datacentres bad" in this article and very little actual substance.

    A 4 million dollar data centre is tiny. It's not gonna have AI in it and draw gigawatts. My work has an off site redundant data centre that's essentially three shipping containers, and it cost them ten million bucks, and it just keeps a hot copy of the business data synced from a similar-sized data centre down the road.

    So this very well could just be space for actual "legitimate" storage and compute for semi local businesses that want a backup far enough away so that when one burns down the other one is ok.

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