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[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Cant vote against datacenters if you're dead. Also, fantastic way to remove the parasites taking up energy for their useless pursuits, like daily life.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What is the highest-leverage attack on this kind of installation? Like most people don't have access to cruise missiles (though if you do, please do the thing!), but I'm thinking ventilation intake. Like take a can of expanding foam (ie, GreatStuff), duct-tape an M-80 to it, light and chuck it into the ducting.

[–] matthurtme@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just get a shit load of meth heads and tell them how much copper there is in these fucking murder centers

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or maybe put the address on Craigslist and say you're moving and there's hella free copper, RAM and graphics cards.

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[–] vane@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago

Town ? So people are fine right ?

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Apparently that particular bacteria is basically everywhere on the environment and amounts of it around is pretty harmless. Datacenter just offered a nice and warm environment for it to prosper and then dumped the shitload of bacteria into water treatment system and the treatment plants can't manage that much of it properly.

Also, while it could be deadly, it's more likely that you'll have couple of miserable days on the porcelain throne. But almost any underlying condition (being old, having any kind of gut issues, having flu...) can tip the scale and instead of literally shitty ilness you'll end up in a box.

While Meta is of course guilty here on multiple things one might argue that local government is equally responsible since they allowed Meta to connect their sewer pipe in the first place without proper precautions. But maybe Zuck just had to have a new limousine or whatever so responsibility part was skipped.

so responsibility part was skipped.

The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I'm not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.

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