| ▲ | spencerflem 5 hours ago |
| One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensive. All for rezoning golf courses too |
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| ▲ | xp84 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Nobody's shutting off those 150 homes to take their electricity, though. They have to buy it themselves. Lots of industrial things take tons of energy, from metal smelting to food production. Oh, and datacenters alone shouldn't even make electricity more expensive, because rates are regulated. The state regulators have to approve rate raises. Now, are the regulators a bunch of stooges captured by the utilities who always do their bidding? Probably! But that's a good reason to throw your corrupt state politicians out of office and hopefully run them out of town on a rail -- not to protest datacenters. |
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| ▲ | multjoy 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Metal and food are useful, though. | | |
| ▲ | cobbzilla 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | the irony of making an implied point that data centers aren’t useful, by using data centers. | | |
| ▲ | AngryData an hour ago | parent [-] | | Pretty sure hackernews doesn't take a giant datacenter to run. Its a text-only website managed by nerds. If HN didn't care about redundancy they could probably host it out of somebody's basement. |
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| ▲ | anthonypasq 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes Is this supposed to scare me or something? I can't even fathom the actual point you are trying to make if it doesn't involve me having an emotional response to this statement. |
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| ▲ | spencerflem 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Seems pretty obvious- that datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change , and unlike aluminum processing or farming which makes things people want, is used for AI which a lot of people resent. It’s a lose-lose | | |
| ▲ | anthonypasq 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change the people who make this true are the same people who oppose the data centers. if they just let people build solar and data centers neither of those things would be true. | | |
| ▲ | spencerflem 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Who’s saying not to build solar? | | |
| ▲ | pesus 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Currently, it's the US government, who is very opposed to renewable energy sources and very in favor of data centers/AI. | |
| ▲ | ghaff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's plenty of opposition to solar farms at the local level. |
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| ▲ | catapart 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wild to see people pretend like this isn't true while we're still in the middle of seeing how badly this shit has already fucked up hardware prices. in b4 the 'apples and oranges' cope |
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