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by jauntywundrkind 44 days ago
The industrial use also often comes with fantastically low rates as well.

Virginia finally started saying folks using >25MW need to pay something more than the incredibly cheap rates they had been given. But generally data centers have often gottem marked as industrial, and it's been incredibly fantastically advantageous to do so.
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TitaRusell 43 days ago
The idea was that industry would provide jobs. Big aluminium plant providing 1500 jobs for the community.

Obviously with AI it doesn't work that way. The Silicon Valley sociopaths openly brag about how they want to put folks out of work.

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jauntywundrkind 43 days ago
And haven't so blatanly let the cat out of the bag, but many many many many people are very very very happy that they get to end personal computing forever for everyone, if this keeps up and supply entirely dries up for consumer channels.

Kind of a master stroke win in the war against general purpose computing.

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