Three-quarters of Americans said in a recent poll that they oppose datacenters being built next to their homes
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[–] 25 points 2 months ago (4 children)

“I think what these companies have to do is take advantage of some of the federal deregulatory efforts that we’ve undertaken,” the US vice-president added. “If you build a datacenter, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out. And if that is happening, I don’t think the datacenters are that controversial. It’s when the utility bills get so much higher that’s when it’s a real problem.”

Ummm...except that all those "federal deregulatory efforts" mean they don't have to do any of that in order to build them. So they won't, of course. Why would they, when you've already given them the free-reign to do whatever they want?

How do these clowns have any supporters left, at this point?

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    What data centers are net energy negative? Maybe if they designed the building inefficiently large and then placed solar panels on the roof... Maybe. But I haven't seen any articles or papers or evidence of such a data center. Maybe some have on premise energy generators like natural gas but they are inherently less efficient than the state/federal/municipality ran ones which operate on a larger scale and enjoy the benefits of doing such.

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