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by jackyinger 5 days ago
A desperate bid to get around data center bans: disguise them as homeless encampments
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It's easier to get datacenters approved than homeless housing projects.
The real unlock, the homeless can shelter for warm next to the gpus, and they can recruit some for some fent if they need workers.

Heck, call it public housing and bringing jobs into the community.

They'll be bulldozed and all those servers will lose their ids and medications.
Microsoft had a neat trick here in the Netherlands: instead of opening a new site they decided to make a their existing site higher by adding a few floors.

Ofcourse that only works once the Dutch borg adapts!

While that is done, unless land is expensive (which it rarely is by enough) building out is a lot cheaper than building up.
Homeless encampments or mountaineering base camps