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by bendergarcia
2 days ago
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Your condescending tone about what people want is crazy. You don’t even acknowledge that this will have a real material impact negative impact on people who are not tech workers. Everyone’s electricity bill will go up. And the argument is always that the benefits will come down stream. But it ignores the real fact that: it will affect people immediately, once electricity bills go up. And all of that for the sake of compute for a technology most people don’t like anyways? Your comment about them being misled implies that they haven’t done their own research to understand the impacts these things have on their communities. |
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Of course I don't acknowledge that, for the same reason I don't acknowledge the “real material negative impact” of wind and solar farms or desalination plants: because there's exceedingly little of it in reality.
> Everyone’s electricity bill will go up.
That's trivial to fix by the electric utility charging datacenters at a higher rate. That's exactly what NV Energy is seeking regulatory approval to do here, and what Seattle's electric utility should be doing (if they ain't already).
>technology most people don’t like anyways?
Most people don't like streaming video and social media? These datacenters ain't exclusively for AI.
>Your comment about them being misled implies that they haven’t done their own research to understand the impacts these things have on their communities.
Correct, and I'll even exply it: the overwhelmingly vast majority of them have indeed demonstrably done zero of their own research on the actual impacts these things will have on their communities and mine. They're entirely parroting talking points fed to them via social media, and those talking points invariably boil down to things that are either not actually applicable to local datacenters or are just outright lunacy on the same level as 5G towers controlling minds via COVID vaccines.