• jontree255@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    “Data center protests are now left wing terrorism” - some Trump shithead

    Good thing it seems almost everyone fucking hates data centers including rural people.

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      16 days ago

      In an interview with Forbes last year, Flock CEO Garrett Langley described DeFlock as a “terroristic organization.” But now, as Flock faces an increasingly vitriolic public backlash, Langley says he regrets that label.

      Pretty close to reality actually

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    17 days ago

    This is all so easily avoidable if they would spend a little more money to make them quieter, water efficient, and pay for their own energy. The technology exists. We could engineer a solution.

    But I guess it’s cheaper to bribe a few councilmen.

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      17 days ago

      They’ll get protested anyway since those aren’t the real motive behind the protests to begin with.

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        16 days ago

        Environmental concerns are certainly among the genuine reasons people are protesting, though there are also other reasons.

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          16 days ago

          Except that the environmental impact of AI data centers is actually quite small compared to tons of other things that they could be protesting.

          It’s quite ironic, there’s an old golf course near my home town that’s likely going to be replaced with a data center in the near future (it’s shutting down and being rezoned, that’s enough to get the protests started) but golf courses are way more water-hungry than data centers are.