it's really interesting how datacenters have become the new nuclear waste sites, no community wants either of them anywhere near
and it's not just the obvious massive scale, with lack of any meaningful permanent employment, huge water and energy use, but also they are backed by the most odious corporations and techbros
people get all of this, and are saying LOUDLY - NO WAY!!
Hamilton has put a moratorium on data center developments. This should be the default policy all over Canada - they are wasteful, energy and water sucks, and the output is literally an economic and social timebomb
City of Hamilton staff will report back to councillors at their next meeting on July 15 with a bylaw imposing a moratorium on the construction of the facilities that securely store, process and distribute digital information.
Thing is, we all know the industry is a scam. From the early 00s everyone pumping AI was also pumping crypto, pushing NFTs, and other completely obvious grifting which was simply too challenging to press charges except in rare really big cases.
But we all knew it.
And the science is in: perfect applications of GenAI can get up to 0.55% productivity gains, at an insane cost.
Governments pushing to attract data centres must be investigated for bribery and/or collusion, imo.
@MatWright this should be a ban on AI data centres, not all data centres.
The reality is that too many Canadians and Canadian Businesses keep their data in US based data centres. There should be a push to patriate that data. And, as an added bonus, storage centric data centres use a lot less power.
Was thinking the same thing. AI data centres consume roughly 10 times the power (and water) of an old fashioned compute/storage data centre. So the fight should be about AI data centres for all the reasons that have been articulated.
After all, most of are using data centres of some sort simply by posting on here.🤔
great juxtaposition - datacentres and nuclear waste sites
this is really emotive language and gets to the core of the communication -clear and likely to stick in people's minds.
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