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Bigshrimp That makes sense. Higher energy costs and noise isn't something people enjoy. Also causes a heat island where the AI data center is and increases climate change due to the increase of resources required to run them and more pollution. Reply
Spock_rhp Higher energy costs indicate a failure at the level of state law and the public utilities commission. "Significant" additions to the utility load should be forced to carry the marginal cost of the added power and NOT receive any benefit from existing sources of low cost power . — grandad . Reply
Zaranthos If China can hack most of our government for years and basically get away with it they can easily influence our media, social media, and activist groups. We're far more vulnerable to outside influence than we're willing to believe and some naive article citing polls that by their very language often skew the polls negatively towards AI data centers is far from proof of anything other than polling is easily manipulated. We're most certainly being influenced, the motivation is absolutely going to be designed to slow our AI progress, and the only question is how effective and widespread that influence is. It's extremely easy to spread any narrative you want on the internet and can be done very cheaply, especially in the context of the kind of money being invested in AI combined with the importance being placed on it by governments. Ultimately it's unlikely to be very effective as projects will just change locations if they have to and the real bottleneck will likely be other things like availability of skilled labor to build the data centers or fab contracts that can produce enough of the technology needed to even fire up the data centers to the scale envisioned. AI is so quickly becoming a can't live without tool it simply makes no sense to stop developing and advancing it. If it's not literally in your back yard and guaranteed to cause you real long term problems and just moving isn't an option then opposition to data centers is probably just stupid. Reply
Jabberwocky79 Zaranthos said: AI is so quickly becoming a can't live without tool it simply makes no sense to stop developing and advancing it. If it's not literally in your back yard and guaranteed to cause you real long term problems and just moving isn't an option then opposition to data centers is probably just stupid. No desire to get into a political debate or anything related to China, but to the point quoted above – I think the loudest voices ARE coming from people who are in the vicinity of a data center and are being directly affected – OR – under threat of a new data center being built in their neighborhood. And no, the vast majority of people can't "just move" for an infinite number of reasons – family obligations, career location, property costs… I mean, have you looked around at the economy lately? I can't help but feel your take is very obtuse. Reply
GenericUser2001 It seems to me that there needs to be better coordination at putting these data centers in places that are already zoned industrial rather than greenfield developments. I mean, the whole rust belt area should have plenty of unused former factory land that would be a just fine place to place these operations. That said, I have even seen people get weird and want to block data center development that was literally doing this, in my local area there were people protesting a plan to knock down the ruined shell of an old factory that is literally only has the local airport, farm equipment dealership, & Pepsi bottling plant as neighbors. Reply
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