• LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    No one leaves notes, it’s not the 60’s anymore. This looks like a inside job or a setup to paint anti data center people as violent people.

    The reality is if you are FOR data centers, you are the problem and need to do more research. No one should be for any data centers to be built in this country, I wouldn’t want to live near one. I also hate paying the electric bill for billionaires, they need to pony up all the money, they have plenty!

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      Or put them in places humans can’t easily live.

      It could be in cold remote areas where they could get the sun for several months at a time, charge huge batteries, and run on battery during the dark months.

      They’d have colder ambient air so cheaper to cool.

      Or… return to efficient software values, live within our means, and serve applications from more easily cooled low power chips.

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      I’m curious what you mean by “no data centers should be built in this country”.

      Almost everything on the Internet exists because a data center is hosting it.

      If all of the data centers exist outside of the country, not only latency issues would arise but data security and availability concerns as well.

      If there were no datacenters anywhere, the Internet would be a much slower, unreliable, and sparesly populated place.

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        I miss the days of a much slower, unreliable and sparsely populated internet. That’s when it was its best.

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      They’re pushing hard for them in Georgia. I get a lot of ads on YouTube about how Georgia Power has recently locked in a rate for three years. (I believe they’re ignoring that it shot up a lot prior to this, but I might be mistaken.) It’s so weird seeing ad campaigns that are targeting businesses instead of individuals (or at least individuals working for businesses).

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      Just confirming that to stream Letterkenny in the US, Netflix should build a data center on the Canadian side of Lake Huron (cause they made the damn show of course), and then pipe the data back to the US?

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    Its almost like fucking over all of us with rolling blackouts , skyrocketing power bills, sucking up water, and creating heat islands would upset us. Oh and further enriching billionaires with stolen land. Wow. Weird.

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    Wait, did the shooter walk up to the house, politely place the note under the mat, then start blasting?

    Or did they light the place up before dropping off the note?

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    Hear me out…

    How do we know it wasn’t a peaceful person leaving a hand written note begging for no more datacentres, when their nemesis, Dr Datacentre, drove past and started shooting at him?

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    I bet this isn’t what really happened. It has the feel of a scam. The payout this guy has been promised for helping get that slop farm built must be huge.

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      You’d be surprised at how cheap indiana politicians can be bought for. If the stoners here could organize a go fund me and donate the cost of a taco bell meal each we’d have legal weed.

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    Eco-terrorists do your thing. No one else will stop this stupid forward momentum on AI as it needs to suck in huge resources just so some dipshit can request porn comics.

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      Please people, you need to stop spreading this misinformation.

      AI is not killing the environment. If you track the sources of these claims, you will find that they first were spread by McKinsey and Bloomberg, who have a vested interest in publicly traded oil companies and other polluting corporations. They love to spread this misinformation because it distracts from the REAL environmental harms being caused by fossil fuels, meat farming, and concrete production. See drawdown.org for the specific numbers.

      We need to stay focused on climate change and not get distracted. Our efforts should be focused on stopping new coal plants and factory farms. Datacenters, and especially the one in indianapolis which wouldn’t even have used water for cooling, have minimal environmental impact compared to trump’s coal, oil, and farming policies which will kill tens of millions in the long run and have already sparked wars.

      We can fix climate change. We were so close to replacing fossil fuels that oil companies got scared; we can’t afford to give up at the last mile.

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        The opportunity cost for AI is pretty high. That’s a lot of resources spent on something that’s bad for the world, even if it’s not specifically the worst for climate change reasons in a first order sense.

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      I actually think the market will beat them too it. Between Sora being taken out behind the barn, the laundry list of layoffs that indicate these companies are getting high off their own supply, and lastly the very real realization that all this “investment” is a massive billion dollar circle jerk.

      It looks too bubbly to me, we can only hope the pop happens fast enough that these companies cant cannabalize eachother, but thats wishful thinking.

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      Why we talkin bout the Klingon dilithium mining moon?

      Everything’s fine on Praxis, don’t need help nope it’s all good thanks move along

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        i wonder if it’s actually pronounced “prak-sis” or if it’s a literal translation of the klingon word for the concept of praxis as humanity understands it…