“Data center protests are now left wing terrorism” - some Trump shithead
Good thing it seems almost everyone fucking hates data centers including rural people.
“Data center protests are now left wing terrorism” - some Trump shithead
Good thing it seems almost everyone fucking hates data centers including rural people.
"Its socialism to not raise your utility bills by 25-50% " will play well lmao
Calling it SOCIALISM to HATE Data Centers will NOT backfire on your REALLY DUMB Followers who hate Data Centers and are being told THAT makes them Socialist!
This is all so easily avoidable if they would spend a little more money to make them quieter, water efficient, and pay for their own energy. The technology exists. We could engineer a solution.
But I guess it's cheaper to bribe a few councilmen.
My company does exactly these and more.
Top-of-the line ultra-quiet low sulfur generators used only for utility outages.
Closed-loop water cooling means the toilets use more water in a day than the cooling does in a year.
Paying for the construction of the local infrastructure needed for twice our usage of electricity. We leave things better after we build.
We do these every day. No one notices because bad news leads. There are certainly bad actors. And no one cares to think any further than that. Subtlety and nuance in understanding technology is dead.
I feel like this is less a subtly and nuance thing and moreso a quite a few data centers particularly AI ones are built and maintained like shit. Frankly this is moreso a discussion of corporate malfeasance and lack of regulations on certain industries than a technology discussion, though obviously a lot of it is wrapped up in the AI shit because it's the current fuckfest of a nothing tech that's causing problems but I do remember similar issues building up during the crypto shit it's just now with AI.
Ok but all that stuff is expensive. Why don't we use up all the resources that are priced at human wage levels since we have infinite investor money to work with?
They'll get protested anyway since those aren't the real motive behind the protests to begin with.
Environmental concerns are certainly among the genuine reasons people are protesting, though there are also other reasons.
Except that the environmental impact of AI data centers is actually quite small compared to tons of other things that they could be protesting.
It's quite ironic, there's an old golf course near my home town that's likely going to be replaced with a data center in the near future (it's shutting down and being rezoned, that's enough to get the protests started) but golf courses are way more water-hungry than data centers are.
I still can't believe the grotesquely huge amounts of copper they use in those data centers. Now we know why they got rid of the penny. Copper everywhere. As far as the eye can see!
It will never be anywhere near the grotesque amounts of non-recyclable gasoline, diesel, fossil methane and collective emissions. You know these are measured in BILLIONS of TONS per YEAR, right? Being liquid and gaseous instead of solid is not a reason to dismiss them.
Amazing! The one thing capable of uniting Americans right now is a warehouse full of GPUs. Turns out people love AI until the power bill, water use and mystery zoning meeting show up. Maybe transparency should scale as fast as compute for once, because trust clearly is not keeping pace.
I was surprised to find that frustrations over the data center "explosion" are very bipartisan. Basically no one except rich tech bros are happy about it.
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Most of the american population {tumbleweed and crickets}
{Fuel prices go up due to the war}
The american population: "This is affecting me directly now, how outrageous. I didn't vote for this."
{Data centres happen and energy prices go up}
The american population: "This is affecting me directly now, how outrageous. I didn't vote for this."
Little Marco abt to designate them as anti-tech extremist terrorists. This is gonna get interesting given how many people are aligned on this.
The fact they've gobbled up all memory and storage supply to the point where there's none left over for anyone else, and the fact the little stock you do find is extortionately expensive is disgusting. We're literally seeing an entire era and industry collapsing, jobs being stolen from people and huge negative economical impacts, just for the sake of AI.
It's so not worth it, this shit has gone way beyond going out of hand...
This is gonna go really well when people find out the only way to safely store health and justice data is in a specialized building.
Thats already happened.
These data centers are for AI to scrape data from you, that's it.
Dont conflate things.
Only because hyperscale AI Data Centers and the kind of data centers we already had got conflated. That was almost certainly intentional.
Burn em down 🔥
Have a nice fire themed playlist I played at the last Tesla dealership protest I went to.
Seems like I'll get more use out of it.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQUDI2beEZ9rOVZ48pC5Lw1tBa1EgdEC
I work with health data.
You want datacenters. Believe me you really want them. You don't want resources wasted on Ai, but this protest is about killing datacenters, and there is a baby in that bathwater.
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