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Frustrated Resident Blasts the Screeching Sound of a Data Center to a County Official During a Council Meeting, Gets Mocked (futurism.com)
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Data center proponents generally argue that the facilities will provide jobs and sustain the American lead in the global AI race. Opponents, meanwhile, urge that the infrastructure projects are associated with dangerous pollution, spiking energy costs, and loss of natural land. And then, of course, there’s the noise.

“We don’t need a data center in a community, let alone two hyperscale data centers in a community of less than a population of 12,000 people,”

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[–] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well, the “permanent jobs” are like two dozen — for security, mainly. But yeah, once construction is done, it goes from several dozens to one or two.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    That's the thing. Boomer politicians going "gee that's a big building, it will be able to hold a lot of highly skilled taxpaying workers." But if said politicians looked at other cases they'd see, that the most skilled workers are the 6 or so guys, who showed just enough cognitive abilities to be trusted, to go to aisle X, find rack Y and replace the faulty drive with the red light on shelf Z.

    Data centers probably won't even hire local electricians or AC techs, because they'll be brought in with knowledge of data center operations.

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