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Survey shows that nearly half of Americans don't want new data centers built near their homes — 47% oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their neighborhood (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

There doesn't seem to be a paywall on the source the article links to. From there:

Nearly half (47%) of U.S. residents oppose the construction of an artificial intelligence data center in their neighborhood, while 38% support it.

That seems to leave 15% "no opinion".

Gen Zers (48%) and millennials (50%) are more likely than Gen Xers (38%) and baby boomers (22%) to support data centers in their backyard.

Broken down by political preference, roughly half (49%) of Republicans support the construction of an AI data center in their neighborhood, compared with 36% of Democrats.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

who's going to blame the boomers now?

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm wondering why younger generation supports it. Are they thinking it will create jobs (it won't, very few people are need to operate a data center) or it is some other reason?

I only see drawbacks, like higher energy bills, higher water bills, typically an ugly windowless building.

With the AI trend there might be some coal power plant kicked off that pollutes the neighborhood like musk does in Tennessee.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And apparently the noise is relentless and mind-breaking.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

I've been in a data center and yes the noise is quite loud from all the fans in servers and AC running, but it is just inside.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They don’t own homes, so they are likely less protective of what is built near them.

(Obviously many of them do, but statistically they are less likely)