E RosalieMar 15
Just so we’re 1000% clear: no state or local government should be giving financial incentives to build a data center. If anything, it should come with increased taxation—because wherever they go, they gobble up water and energy. They should be paying locals for the privilege of being tolerated.
Show threadPusher of Pixels

@erosalie In our fight here in the datacenter capital of NoVA, I spoke out at a meeting about the noise issues.

"A hospital makes noise at all hours, but if you live next to one...you live next door to a hospital.

A grocery store makes noise...but you can walk to get food.

The VRE (commuter rail) makes a LOT of noise, but you have good access to mass transit.

A bar/restaurant makes noise...but you live next to walkable culture.

A data center makes noise.....and gives us NOTHING literally any other business would provide.

Trade offs are made for better society. Data centers offer nothing unique in that transaction."

And certainly nothing worth the tradeoff.

Mar 15 at 8:18pmWeb
Show threadElshara SilverheartMar 16
@Jesticulated @pixelpusher220 That is definitely an interesting way of looking at it.
Show threadElshara SilverheartMar 16
@Jesticulated @pixelpusher220 I'm genuinely curious. Would home servers be a better trade off if this kind of data say excluding AI or gaming were mission critical somehow? I know that if you did that in a way where computers ran quietly where you barely heard them in a room, it would be a lot less pollutant both electrically and noisily.