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‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz
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I'm a big fan of machine learning. I'd say this project needs a lot more public scrutiny.

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This article repeats the claim it's NZ's first datacentre, in the headline and in the article, but I think it might be the first AI one or the first of it's size. It's certainly not the first datacentre in NZ!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It's just the typical quality of journalism. You can spot the factual errors because you know better: most people can't.

    They'll be parroting whatever marketing drivel the company's provided them.

    "NZ's first datacentre (of this scale | in this region | for this operator | dedicated to AI)"

    The journalist just drops the 'confusing bit'.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I guess this has been a thing my whole life. I remember reading newspapers thinking every article I have background knowledge in is wrong in some way, so we really need to take articles about things we don't understand with a grain of salt as well.

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