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Good. Data centers are toxic to the environment, to the public, and to public life; they should be toxic to politicians as well.
Edit: I love this line from the article:
Ironic a man named Cassino lost his gamble because people were afraid of losing money.
He is just a college professor/pollster.
And here you are interacting with the help of datacenters.
There is a tiny bit of a difference between a "normal" data center with your typical web stack and a data center filled with GPU's spending megawatts to confidently tell you that its alright to eat staples while raising your electricity bill, exhausting the water table, and providing no meaningful value.
True, but 9 times out of 10 you don't see the distinction in the comments, it's only "datacenters".
I do feel bad for the "normal" companies that are general purpose data center and colo providers that are basically doomed to never being able to expand because of this shit show.
AI facilities should be rebranded as "slop farms" or "slop pens". I think it would be pretty easy to isolate them as a normal facility might top out in the 1-2 megawatt neighborhood while a slop farm is going to need that just for the pumps and exchange fans for its cooling system. Just rough numbers but the two have extremely different requests to operate power requirements.
Please state your argument more clearly
tracert