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    Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard

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    1. anyparties on

      What if we had, hold on what’s it called again, affordable housing instead?

    3. generalsilliness on

      Let’s get rid of the poor. They can be replaced by AI now. It’s not profitable to waste resources on them.

    4. QuesoMeHungry on

      Because it offers zero benefits to the surrounding community. It’s just a giant leech on local utilities.

    5. FlemPlays on

      Republican Politicians and Trump voters can have them in their backyards. Republicans push for them and their voters blindly support their policies. Let them reap what they sow.

    7. AGrandNewAdventure on

      I don’t want one in anybody’s backyard. They annihilate water reserves, decimate electric grids and contribute almost nothing to communities as a whole.

    8. a-voice-in-your-head on

      Just because it takes all the drinking water, jacks up everybody’s energy bills, wipes out jobs, and empowers psychopathic megalomaniacs?

    9. asdf_lord on

      I’m fine with a nuclear reactor or a solar farm. A DC? I’ve worked in them for years I’ve had enough. It’s a ghost town in there most days so they didn’t make jobs. llms are text so latency is a non issue especially with text streaming. Just build them where it’s always cold and use nature’s refrigeration. Why is this so obvious and why do they want to build datacenters in the hottest places where water is scarce?

    10. ElCamo267 on

      If it weren’t fo “public servants” signing NDAs and taking deals under the table these wouldn’t be getting built anywhere.

      Any community building one should do whatever they can to recall everyone that voted for it because your officials are not representing your best interests.

    12. Mrwright96 on

      Why don’t we put them next to the homeless shelters, or junk yards, or those other places people appreciate, but don’t want near them for some reason

    14. redditobserverone on

      Why don’t the tech billionaires build them on their sprawling properties.

    15. hibikir_40k on

      There’s a lot of datacenters in people’s backyards: They just happen to be relatively small ones, relying almost entirely on the grid outside of power outages. I know one that backed onto a subdivision, and few would be able to tell it wasn’t one of the normal office buildings.

      Now, if your datacenter is the size of 40 football fields, and it’s going to rely on gas turbines, not so much.

    17. Limp_Distribution on

      We don’t even want AI but billionaires want it to get rid of workers, so they can own everything.

    18. Aust1mh on

      But if you don’t want a data center you must be “a domestic terrorist” or “a Chinese paid disrupter”.

      These are the billionaire tag lines on fox “news” at the moment…

    20. mr_evilweed on

      Yeah well if you keep sitting out local elections and ceding everything to politicians who don’t give a shit about you, that’s what happens I guess. But hey at least you saved that one day a year of participating in democracy.

    21. julesk on

      Who wouldn’t want a data center sucking up their water and utilities to give us the joy of AI and data mining of our info?

    22. Cant_fix_idntcare on

      Especially out west when we facing droughts n wild fires!! Small towns r literally running out of water this summer n corporations want to suck up even MORE water??

    23. firedrakes on

      Turns out none science back polls are great to make up mis info news and people fall for that

    25. Dreamtrain on

      Hey guys so remember this really old game where a group of environment-conscious people organize to dismantle these facilities that are draining the planet of its literal lifeforce and these facilities are owned by a corporation that is so intermingle with the government that it practically runs governance and media, and the media arm is used to label the resistance as ecoterrorist who are desperate to rid of these facilities

      Yeah, wonder how long until that starts becoming a reality, the first group of people calling themselves Avalanche bombing the first AI Data Center

    26. Etrensce on

      People don’t want anything in their backyard that would lower their property value and the list of things that lower property value is long.

    27. Bargadiel on

      Execs of these companies and their families should be required to live right next to their own data centers and drink the tap water.

      Like magic, they’ll clean up their act real quick.

    28. Guilty-Mix-7629 on

      I noticed lots of people defending their existence once it’s confirmed it won’t be in their own town affecting own life, though.

    30. FoxlyKei on

      Honestly I wonder if it might be better to put a small one in everyone’s house as a replacement for a water heater now that I think about it..

      It doesn’t take up all of that damn space and heats your water for you instead. Unless the water they use is completely wasted?

    32. Brilliant-Serve17 on

      Yeah no shit. The 1 IT and 2 AC, and 5 security jobs a massive complex brings isn’t worth the societal costs to most communities.

    33. TheDonnARK on

      Yes, so why do they insist on trying to build every single one of them right near a bunch of residential homes?

    34. NEOK53 on

      Or in anyone else’s backyard really, it seems. Really is a pretty solid consensus.