Reuters reports that around 100 people made it into the construction site, with some scaling a crane to place a “fuck AI” banner. Protesters also unfurled a “Microsoft powers genocide” banner on the construction site, and chanted “Microsoft has got to go” and “free Palestine.”

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[+] -17 points 13 hours ago* (11 children)

This is gonna be a baby+bathwater incident.

People know that datacenters

  • existed before LLMs
  • provide valuable safety and security for important data like health data and bank info and courts evidence
  • don't need to have jet turbines for power or water for cooling if they're planned right

I worry this is gonna affect DCs and push orgs into shitty basement installations again where power and cooling and security isn't cheap or easy and we're gonna have more physical problems with shit like Nana's prescription or cartel criminal cases.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago

    Sure, asbestos if giving you cancer, but have you thought of its insulating properties, and to replace damaged asbestos immediately?

    Sure, tetraetillead in fuel exposes us to lead, but have you thought how good of an anti-knocking agent it is, and that you shouldn't live near busy roads?

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