[SaucyWrong]

John Carmack will never have to live near a data center’s constant droning noise. He’ll never have to breathe the toxic poison spewed by its gas turbines. He won’t be feel the impact of rising energy prices.

Feels like a another out of touch ivory tower argument from another generational talent that filled their bags ages ago and no longer relates to common folk.

[HDBaseT]

Which is funny, since Notch is who he is replying to.

Notch is worth hundreds of millions more and will never have to live in anything but a multi-million dollar mansion either.

The nucular energy point is sound, although data centers aren't even remotely close to the usefulness of cheap, reliable and "green" energy. Right now DCs are being used to generate slop, make everyone dumber and push more spyware.

[SaucyWrong]

I agree, we screwed up nuclear policy here in the US but I wouldn’t say it was solely “vibes.” Three Mile Island wasn’t Chernobyl, but it also wasn’t nothing. Still, an unfortunate long-term outcome is that nuclear energy became a non starter.

Data centers, on the other hand, are essentially a blight wherever they are deployed. Everyone I know would spend extra to move away from one, but they tend to be deployed in areas of low mobility.

[CamperBob2]

Notch has hundreds of millions more.

/pet peeve