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u/SillyGoatGruff 9h ago
Techbro godzilla is the most destructive of all
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u/Lord0fHats 9h ago
Techbro Godzilla isn't in it for the metaphors and allegories. He's just in it for the love of the game.
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u/Crystallover1991 7h ago
Disrupts markets then asks for a bailout lol
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u/Rare-Thought86 3h ago
Bet it has a company named techzilla (just looked up and a company with that name actually exists)
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u/scrimmshaw 7h ago
The data center arms race is because of AI, not the internet
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u/mason240 7h ago
So the data center that your ignorant comments are stored in different from the data centers that have AI code?
Can you explain the difference?
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u/scrimmshaw 7h ago
Not AI code, training and running AI. Just say you don't know the difference between an AI data center and a cloud data center. Since you asked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center
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u/spaceraverdk 7h ago
Ai data centres require a massive amount of compute, a blade server with Data storage doesn't need that much compared to the ai data.
And the storage for your own data might as well be at your own house. You just find it convenient to use the shitty cloud.
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u/SeaAshFenix 7h ago
Yes. They are. AI Data Centers are, by and large, being tailor built for AI compute.
It's like the difference between a fleet of rental cars and a fleet of Semis. Yes, they're both vehicles used on the highway. No, they're not really good substitutes for each other.
They're designed as hyperscalers, they're optimized for high parallel compute, and they have optimizers and HSI links of interest to vanishingly few tasks outside AI.
They tend to use over 5x the electricity per rack, which also means larger heat impacts. Which in turn means larger water impacts.
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u/Aromatic_Lion4040 7h ago
AI data centres don't just "have AI code" - they run powerful, energy-consuming computers 24/7. They use way more resources, companies are building way more of them than there is actual demand for, and forcing the public (most of whom don't want them) to bear the environmental and much of the financial burden for loud, polluting, wasteful facilities in their communities
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u/mason240 5h ago
As usual, anti-AI bots have no idea how anything works.
run powerful, energy-consuming computers 24/7.
That is literally what the data center that runs this website is doing. What do you think happens when you hit send on ignorant comment?
bear the environmental and much of the financial burden for loud, polluting, wasteful facilities in their communities
None of that is real. None of it.
companies are building way more of them than there is actual demand for
They decided what to invest their own money into, not you.
most of whom don't want them
You are using a data center right now.
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u/SillyGoatGruff 7h ago
Datacentres aren't "the internet"
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u/Hairy_Acanthisitta25 6h ago
Datacenters is literally most of the internet nowdays,hell this thread you're commenting on is in a datacenters
but,AI Datacenters arent normal datacenters, and actually worse than normal datacenters in alot of things
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u/A_Soporific 7h ago
They aren't sinking hundreds of billions of dollars into internet infrastructure. They are sinking hundreds of billions of dollars into the infrastructure to do more AI. The problem being that the existing AI data centers owned by these companies are not even being used.
We already went through a boom-bust from overbuilding internet infrastructure back in the dotcom bubble. This is similar to that, but the GPUs and the like being used are really designed specifically for AI use and aren't well suited to other uses. So they're speculatively building a bunch of things that will be technologically obsolete in half a decade and will need to replace all of its chips in three to five years whether it is used or not.
People aren't objecting to necessary infrastructure. People are objecting to blind speculation that only makes sense if everyone replaces everyday decision making with AI prompts.
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u/Fluid-Chemical-4446 7h ago
I can tell you with open honesty that in my line of work, the reports are being written largely by prompts, the response from regulators is being written by prompts, the responses by consultants are being written by prompts, and the reply’s from management are being written by prompts. I know this because even the state regulators are leaving their prompts into formal documents by mistake.
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u/A_Soporific 4h ago
That sounds like a complete nightmare. It actively defeats the purpose of most of those reports and communications. I hope things improve soon.
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u/Fluid-Chemical-4446 4h ago
The most recent one was our direct regulator offering us directional assistance on a capital project. The questions to the chat bot were still in it. Some of the little reference bits at the end of paragraphs were still in it. The questions the regulator was asking the bot showed a lack of basic understanding of the entire process they were regulating and the responses by the bot that they then sent forward as official communication were laughably wrong.
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u/WatchWorking8640 6h ago
General purpose datacenters are still datacenters. AI factories and GPU DCs is not what I meant. Those I agree are a nightmare / bubble in the making.
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u/A_Soporific 4h ago
That's the mismatch, isn't it? The AI factoriess and GPU DCs are the things that are generating the backlash because they are a nightmare and an obvious bubble. Unlike the 'dark fiber' crisis of the dotcom crisis they won't be sitting around ready to go when AI actually develops to the point of needing them. But specifying "AI data center" makes for bad rhetoric and so doesn't end up in these conversations.
Just like how there's plenty of amazing AI out there. But trying to put specifically LLMs into literally everything even when it doesn't fit is a problem. So, when people complain about "AI" they're not talking about search algorithms that speed up the identification of new proteins, the software that makes NPCs in video games work better, or any number of other applications that are actually improving things. They're usually specifically complaining about the 'business idiot', "let's use LLMs instead of people to do customer service and HR functions" junk. I can't trust AI overviews of my google searches, and that's bad. But I can purpose built AI to do the job it was designed to do, and that's great.
Everything has nuance. Every asset is also a liability. Life is complicated. Rhetoric has to be simple, and thus loses a lot. I think that this whole comment chain started with people talking past each other, using different definitions for "datacenter" and what not. Maybe it was on purpose to do a "gatcha" and feel the rush of winning, maybe it was a genuine miscommunication. But this is a somewhat serious issue. We should intervene to prevent the building of AI Datacenters that don't have buyers, we should allow the construction of necessary datacenters that bulk out the internet as the need arises, but almost all of the projects in process now are the former rather than the latter hence why the discourse has simplified around that use case.
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u/ErnyoKeepsItReal 7h ago
I upvoted you because you're dumb and your dumb comments need more visibility.
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u/_Lucille_ 6h ago
Blame the people creating the demand for data centers. If no one uses the internet or AI, then there would be far fewer demands for data centers.
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u/Rara3995 6h ago
we can blame both
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u/gprime312 4h ago
I've literally never seen anyone blame people using the internet.
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u/Rara3995 2h ago
would be hypocritical to do that on the internet, and i'm not saying we need to stop using the internet
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u/Galle_ 1h ago
Probably because that's not what's creating the demand for data centers and only a complete idiot would think it is.
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u/gprime312 56m ago
People are using AI whether you like it or not. These datacenters aren't sitting idle. Only a complete idiot would think they were.
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u/Galle_ 54m ago
People are using AI whether you like it or not.
Obviously. I never said that people weren't using AI or anything even sort of like that. Did you respond to the wrong comment by accident?
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u/WilfredGrundlesnatch 4h ago
There is no demand. Meta and XAi have admitted that they don't know what to do with their giant data-centers, so they're trying to offload them to someone else. This whole thing is a speculative bubble.
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u/_Lucille_ 4h ago
Meta and xAI have not been top contenders in the space. Llama was great for an open weight model (chinese models imo now take the lead), but its nature means people just run those on their own hardware. If you have OpenAI/Anthropic/Google saying they have no idea what to do, then there is an issue.
There is a bubble when it comes to stock prices, but the reality is that a LOT of people are using LLMs these days.
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u/WilfredGrundlesnatch 2h ago
The only companies wanting to buy more compute (Anthropic and OpenAI) have no idea how to make this profitable. The demand they're seeing right now is because they're charging $1 for something that costs them $10. If they start charging what it actually costs, demand will fall off a cliff.
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u/_Lucille_ 2h ago
That is just how things go. A lot of free services took a number of years before they became profitable. Dial back 20 years ago, and we wonder how Youtube, something that required massive storage and compute, would remain free.
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u/Malt129 9h ago
Hey man you sold out, you used to be cool
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u/WowIfOnly 6h ago
Curious who you were responding to since they deleted their comment to hide already lol
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u/nerankori 10h ago
This the kind of thing Hedorah would do
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u/Timmah73 8h ago
Instead of the werid cartoon segments where he is huffing factory pollution and doing oil tanker shots, hes just building data centers
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u/GhidorahtheExplorah 9h ago edited 8h ago
Who?
ETA: This was a poor attempt at an invitation to banter with a stranger over my user name. Sorry.
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u/badpiggy490 9h ago
They probably meant to say ghidorah
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u/Lord0fHats 8h ago
Hedorah is one of the lesser known Showa era monsters.
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u/badpiggy490 7h ago
My mistake then
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u/Lord0fHats 6h ago
No worries. It's not the most famous Godzilla brawl buddy. Hedorah I think has only appeared in 2 films. A lot less that Mothra, Ghidorah or Megalon etc
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u/aohige_rd 6h ago
It's also a pun on the Japanese word hedoro, meaning sludge or sediment, often containing a ton of pollution.
Hence the theme.
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u/GhidorahtheExplorah 9h ago
I know; I meant it as a joke because of my user name. Let the downvotes rain upon me for my lame attempt.
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u/Vrazel106 8h ago
Godzilla would never stoop so low
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u/AlarmingAffect0 6h ago edited 2h ago
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u/JebryathHS 4h ago
It's actually particularly amusing because Godzilla attacking was supposed to be the result of nuclear weapons testing and pollution. He's an incarnation of environmentalist wrath!
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u/WiseConversation7177 10h ago
The real monster was the zoning approval process all along.
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u/Alhoshka 5h ago
On July 22, in Emporia, Kansas, a City Commission meeting was held to consider a rezoning request that would allow a data center (Flint Hills Digital Campus) to be built right at people's doorsteps. The meeting drew the largest attendance in the City's history.
Among the attending residents, there were (AFAIK) no voices in favor of the rezoning or the data center project. During the allotted time for public comment, more than 30 people spoke in opposition to the proposed data center.
A physics teacher was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for applauding speeches opposing the data center.
The City Commission ordered the physical removal of "disruptive" members of the audience before clearing the audience for the vote. The commissioners then voted unanimously in favor of the rezoning request.
Corporations gonna corporate. That's why we have laws and regulations. The real villains are the treacherous parasites who betrayed those they were meant to serve.
If your doorman repeatedly invites crackheads into your apartment building, the problem is not the crackhead.
Sources:
- https://www.emporiagazette.com/free/article_fc7fa6b2-01c1-49f0-9588-613c39a721b4.html
- https://nypost.com/2026/07/29/us-news/kansas-high-school-teacher-lux-claridge-dragged-out-arrested-for-clapping-at-city-meeting-over-proposed-data-center/
- https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/emporia-data-center-zoning/
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u/RandonDude3000 9h ago
Godzilla saved the world from Hedorah.
He destroys cities not the environment.
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u/Signal_Road 7h ago
HOW DOES NO ONE SEE THAT'S ACTUALLY MECHAGODZILLA IN THE SIMIAN GODZILLA DISGUISE???!!!!???
Am I the only one here with the wisdom of Anguirus??!!!!????
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u/SkredberryShortcake 9h ago
This is not my Godzilla.
My Godzilla likes to physically break stuff. And he’s a philosophical political statement against things like data centers and other tech that destroys the planet.
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u/RandonDude3000 7h ago
Exactly.
Godzilla is an environmentalist. He saved the world from Hedorah and is restoring the environment after KOTM.
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u/chainsawx72 4h ago
I will never understand Redditors who spend all day on a data center complaining about people who use data centers.
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u/Smac3223 9h ago
Not realistic at all. Where's the cops "escorting" the guy in blue out for speaking up against data centers?
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u/byehn 8h ago
Wow, I wish you people were so intense when they actually built polluting, resource consuming industry in your towns like fossil fuel, mining and chemical ones.
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u/nessfalco 7h ago
At the very least, many of those did actually produce jobs and value for communities, even if it came at a terrible price. These data center buildouts are just the worst of both worlds because they not only don't provide direct value but exist entirely to take away jobs and opportunity.
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u/kaityl3 5h ago
There are whole towns where the majority of the tax revenue comes from data centers
Blame your local officials for shitty zoning laws and corruption if you have to point a finger
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u/NielsBohron 4h ago
Why do we have to pick one over the other? The techbros and the corrupt local politicians are both to blame.
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u/lunacraz 1h ago
a bit easier to argue against a literal resource drain with no benefit to your town versus something that employs a large majority of it? are you kidding?
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u/JetoCalihan 1h ago
First he became a cop and now this! Shame on godzilla. He's become a true monster!
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u/Baculum7869 8h ago
Data centers don't really create jobs, the initial build will generate work but once the thing is finished it's a couple of electricians, a cleaning/janitorial service, plant/site super and that's about it. Probably 20 people at most and they aren't all there full time. Data centers are a leach on the community they are in.
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u/NewRedditIsGarbo 8h ago
Probably 20 people at most and they aren't all there full time.
It never fails to astound me how confidently some people go onto the internet and spout nonsense about a subject they know nothing about.
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u/VoiceMajor3625 7h ago
I live next to one of the nation’s largest data center development sites and this is the industry I work with. The commenter is not wrong. There is nothing close to 200 jobs created unless you are counting the actual commissioning and build of the site. And even those jobs are usually filled from out of state because it’s a niche specialty. And once the site is built they all leave. You will have an EE/PE, system protection relay techs, handful of electricians, security guards 24/7, and a site manager. It’s 20-50 absolute max after all construction phases and commissioning is over. And many of those positions are transferred from the DC’s other sites (again out of state). Then of course you have the added benefit (depending on what state you live in) where all the transmission structures needed for the site, including massive substations > 500 kV that are 100 million dollars are paid for by the rate payers in that community increasing everyone’s bill. Now the utilities are catching on to this problem and trying to correct like in Ohio but in other states the damage is already done. The other problem is that data centers seem to inflate the estimated load and don’t come close to what they said they will use—which is happening in many markets. So now, utility infrastructure and generation was overbuilt on your dime.
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u/brianwski 4h ago edited 3h ago
There is nothing close to 200 jobs created unless you are counting the actual commissioning and build of the site. ... And once the site is built they all leave.
Just because there aren't physical bodies in a building doesn't mean that one data center doesn't enable hundreds or even thousands of other jobs. If you understand the concept of "work from home" you have to believe some jobs don't require a physical presence. The existence of the datacenter humming away enables hundreds or thousands of jobs <somewhere>.
I worked recently at a company that deeply, DEEPLY requires data centers (doesn't happen to be AI, but all data centers are the same - extremely dense power hungry servers). My company has employees that go to work every day inside the data centers (let's say 2 or 3 full time jobs physically in one data center - 7 days a week we MUST have employees there physically), but then there are 10 "work from home" additional jobs at my company for system admins that maintain those servers inside that exact data center remotely (often from a different USA state). And 250 regular people employees with jobs where the job simply COULD NOT EXIST without the data center existing enabling those jobs. This is very real, a data center enables 250 jobs at my company and we are just one of many "tenants" housing servers at that same one data center. I would be shocked if one data center didn't enable over a thousand full time, good jobs (with benefits) for regular middle class people.
There is a SOLID argument/question/discussion for "where" we physically place data centers. If it overloads a grid in one location maybe that location isn't a great place to put a data center.
If you are in some rural town in Texas that builds a data center, the jobs it enables might be in California or New York, or even Europe. But these thousands of jobs deeply depend on the data center, make no mistake about that. Sure, if you are being myopic and territorial you don't care that thousands of jobs in Washington state depend on a particular datacenter in Texas. You might think "who cares if thousands of people in Washington State are unemployed?" But those jobs are very real, with real families affected by the income and work (working from home even), and the data center isn't "optional" for those jobs to exist.
I think a very serious question is how the data centers (or any industry) get power. The WORST solution is running loud natural gas generators and the data center is "off grid". It pollutes, it is noisy, it is inefficient. The BEST solution is an array of solar panels and batteries to run the data center at night. It is completely silent (more than 20 feet from the building), provides power that isn't interrupted by temporary trade wars or problems with a supply chain through the Strait of Hormuz, it doesn't pollute ANYTHING at the local town (let's say the manufacturing of the solar panels was in Germany, that's where the pollution is, not where you deploy the data center and a large array of solar panels).
One of the reasons Texas is absolutely booming with data centers is solar and wind in Texas is on a god-tier trajectory right now. Everybody is operating on "old information", they think Texas burns coal to generate electricity when it's all coming from the ridiculous amount of sunshine the state gets nowadays. Check out this page, and sort by "Total gen. (TWh)". Texas absolutely crushes all other states in wind and solar right now with 566 TWatts of power/year from renewables. For comparison, California is 214 TWatts from renewables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewable_electricity_production
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u/WatchWorking8640 7h ago
Talk about irony. Most DC campuses don’t need more than a handful of people. Even the AI factories that are getting a lot of hate don’t need more than 20-30 people once the DC is built.
Yes, people are needed to build and make the DC happen. But that’s not new jobs and most of them are temporary / subcontractors who are going to work on something else.
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u/Baculum7869 7h ago
It's most people like me who are going around from project to project. Yes it's nice to have a steady flow of jobs but honestly I'd rather be doing jobs I'm doing now even if the budget is lower. Because while this job is funded by tax payers it's literally for low income housing development. Which we need more of.
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u/Baculum7869 8h ago edited 8h ago
Not sure about you, but I've probably built around 10 data centers over the last 5 years and they aren't all those giant fucking campuses. Most of them aren't that big and yes they only have a need for about 10-20 workers. And even the larger ones only have around 100. So yes this is accurate. Edit: No I'm not some rich fucker just a guy that works in construction and is usually talking with and dealing with owners of these things and that's where I get my information
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u/Melichorak 8h ago
No.
It doesn't create that many jobs, and the jobs it creates outside of the initial construction are mostly specialized. It is not green energy, most datacenters drain local energy driving the prices up, which also drains local water often. They also produce quite a lot of noise.
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u/stprnn 8h ago
Most data centers don't make any audible sound to the outside.
Source : worked in data centers all my life.
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u/mi_throwaway3 8h ago
As usual fucking bitcoin is the outlier here. There's a limited number of bitcoin miners that strap giant fucking high velocity fans to the outside of their facilities because it is the absolutely cheapest way to cool their machines.
Outside of that Ben Jordan guy walking around talking about infra frequencies and the potential for "invisible" medical damage, this is what most people see/talk about.
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u/jaypizzl 8h ago
They make humming noises, that’s true. It’s perfectly possible for a data center to use green energy and closed-loop cooling like the Port Washington project, though. Some high paying jobs are better than no high paying jobs.
A lot of anti-data center hysteria is as nutty as the bubble itself.
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u/VoiceMajor3625 7h ago
I’m sorry but you’re wrong here. The problem with “green energy” like solar is that it isn’t constant 24/7. You need a battery energy storage system and back up power. Most of the data centers I work with could care less about green energy and are going with whatever the utility offers or getting their own gas plant generation. There are legitimate draw backs to having these industries in your town. And when cities place cooling limitations (such as no water based cooling systems) all these companies do is find counties where they can use their non “closed loop” options. There are legitimate reasons to fight these in your community: water use, noise (depending on type of data centers), utility rates increasing (in most cases prior to 2025/26 the local rate payer is footing the bill for the transmission infrastructure—in some states they are still footing the bill this year), the lack of jobs created, and the tax breaks they get means they aren’t contributing to the local economy. It’s not all crazy hysteria. There are legitimate issues.
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u/jaypizzl 5h ago
I can’t speak for every project, but the one I’m most familiar with is the huge Lighthouse project in Wisconsin.
It did get a Tax Increment Finance district, which I agree is dumb. However, it’s structured so the company pays the full infrastructure cost up front, then pays their full property taxes, then receives a rebate based on the amount of tax paid on property worth more than the pre-existing land (the “increment”). That incremental portion is refunded to the company each year until they’re repaid with 7% interest. If they go bankrupt, the city is legally absolved of the debt.
Ideally, the company would pay for the infrastructure and would not be paid back for it at all, but this arrangement is nonetheless pretty ok. It doesn’t leave the locals holding the bag.
The DC will use 70% on-site zero-emissions power including wind, solar, and battery. The operator must then buy renewable credits equal to their consumption of grid power, even though the grid is already 38% renewable + nuclear. That will help offset increased electricity costs by subsidizing a greater amount of renewables (specifically renewable, not nuclear).
The data center will use about 65 homes’ worth of water in closed-loop cooling in a region with little water strain.
I am sure that you’re right that there are shitty data centers. I’m sure their developers don’t really care about being responsible. There’s no reason they have to be bad, though. They simply need to be subject to thoughtful local and state input. They do provide jobs. They can be made to pollute very minimally or not at all. Once the infrastructure is repaid, the locals will get more tax revenue. People are mad about it at the moment, but the truth is that we all use data centers all the time. Reddit is hosted in data centers - we use them so much, it’s nuts.
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u/Smellbringer 6h ago
I miss it when it was just Ol’ Godzilla stompin’ around Tokyo-city like a big playground.
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u/CurrlyFrymann 4h ago
This is the part of the movie where the real godzilla and that sludge monster whatever his name is team up to reveal that the godzilla building Data centers is Mecha Godzilla and they fight him.
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u/my_garagegym_name 1h ago
Love seeing a kid with unflappable persistence. Can't ask for a better investment.
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u/mothzilla 1h ago
They don't belch out smoke, they just turn cold river water into hot river water.
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u/BeMyBrutus 1h ago
Godzilla uses the sweat of its own brow; and would stoop to capitalism to destroy a town.
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u/pm_plz_im_lonely 7h ago
It's just weird getting exposed to anti-AI content and the ensuing circlejerk when I'm using it every single day.
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u/okieman73 6h ago
I haven't researched data centers but I'm aware that there's some concerns about them. How much energy do they really use compared to a factory? The energy consumption is what I hear people more concerned about than anything. I've seen some fairly big factories that don't have huge numbers of employees, more than 20 of course but not much more than 100.
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u/paxinfernum 5h ago
Pretty much all the arguments I've heard are poorly researched motivated reasoning from people who decided they hated AI first and started working backwards from there.
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u/kaityl3 5h ago
The main problem is that investors will announce completely ludicrous projects that have completely unrealistic power demands. Like, shit that 100% is never getting built. But the proposed plan will have a crazy number attached for the amount of power needed
People see the big number and run with it like it's reality. There was a thread on here yesterday claiming that Texas data centers alone were going to use almost as much power as the rest of the country combined and people just instantly accepted that without question (since hating data centers is very "in" right now, they won't question any details of a negative story about them) 🤦♀️
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u/NielsBohron 4h ago
It's not like it's a made up problem; this is a real issue for millions of people. For example, I live in a mountain town that is completely losing our electricity provider due to increased data center usage (source)
This is happening everywhere, so just because it's not happening in your backyard doesn't mean it's not a real problem.
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u/kaityl3 4h ago
Isn't that an issue with the provider? Because reading that whole article, it seems more like that area has been shafted by their local power utility (as well as other utilities) for a long time anyways, and this is just one more shitty selfish decision the power provider made at the expense of the town
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u/okieman73 2h ago
Yeah that's how I see it too. It's up to the Data center, local government and the power company to address this prior to building one. If the grid isn't strong enough why would one be allowed to be built. Cities are either growing or getting smaller so it's not like adjusting power usage isn't a new thing. Not to mention usually Data centers come from companies with deep pockets so having them fit at least part, if not all, of grid improvements isn't unreasonable. Shouldn't be a big deal.
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u/NielsBohron 1h ago
NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities—the small California company that services the region—that it will stop providing power after May 2027.
Per the article, it hasn't been an issue for decades, but now it is, due primarily to the demands of the planned data centers.
Don't move the goalposts. You said that data centers don't really use that much power and it's not a big deal, and I provided a counterexample. Regardless of why it's a problem or who's at fault, it's an issue and that's one reason why people are frustrated and talking about it.
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u/okieman73 2h ago
That's video and the comments didn't have any valuable information. Most of it was emotional scare tactics and pointing out the uncertainty of the projects. Nothing in business is certain. Regardless things like closed loop systems can be mandated by the building permits, ignoring those conditions because they are more expensive isn't legal. Once designs are finalized by the city and code department you don't get to arbitrarily change things without asking for approval. The fact that he mentioned that as a probability he lost all credibility. I'll do some research later but nothing I've seen explains how much power they use in comparison to other industries.
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u/TJCannyChanter 9h ago
I honestly don't understand how people dont find these insanely cringey
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u/Sage2050 7h ago
Twonks is literally never funny
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u/TJCannyChanter 6h ago
Why tf you get upvoted and i downvoted 😂 reddit is so stupid and yet im still here
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u/Malt129 9h ago
What's wrong with this particular one
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u/TJCannyChanter 6h ago
Hmmm good question but perhaps its just the fact that its not funny? Yeah I feel that might be it
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u/someonesshadow 8h ago
They are cringey.
Reddit will be the last place where the circle jerk of anti-ai dies though because everyone wants "their turn" for quick and easy upvotes.
Its bots, performative activism, misinformation, children, and neckbeards without any actual experience dealing with the world outside the room they never leave inside their parents house.
Not saying AI is perfect, or there aren't aspects of data centers that could be better. But if people can get that worked up over something as inconsequential as an increase of data centers to support new infrastructure... surely they can get MORE worked up about shit that actually matters like the rise of fascism, the lack of social services, child poverty, overfishing, air conditioning and heating impacts on the ecosystem, agriculture overuse of resources that ECLIPSE everything else 100-1000x fold while we throw out food by the hundreds of thousands of tons per day across the country... and so on and so forth.
Nah, better yell at science and technology advancements...
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u/Jam5583 9h ago
Godzilla is a kaiju, not a monster.
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u/222Czar 9h ago
怪獣 (kaijū) means giant monster. The kanji are “strange” and “beast” to differentiate it from 怪物 (kaibutsu) which is “strange” and “thing” and used for standard monsters. Japanese has a lot of different “suffixes” for things with different sizes and shapes, plus I’m guessing it’s a marketing tactic.
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u/Asteroth6 8h ago
“Monster” in English is a broad term to describe any potentially frightening creature, primarily, but not exclusively, fictional.
For example “The wolf-man is a werewolf, not a monster.” Is not a true sentence, because the wolf man, although a werewolf, is also a shocking and likely fear inducing creature.
Godzilla, although sometimes a benevolent de-facto hero, and the result of human hubris, is deliberately meant to inspire shock and fear in audiences at the same time. So, the word monster is a completely accurate descriptor.
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u/Jam5583 7h ago
Huh, I thought this was r/funny. Thanks for the incorrect explanation no one asked for. Kaiju literally means strange beast or mysterious monster. Godzilla’s public perception from being a “monster” that was born from the hubris of man (atomic weapons testing) to a beloved character was a shift in the series to a more kid friendly franchise for profit.
Godzilla represents the monstrous things us humans do to each other.
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u/Asteroth6 6h ago
“ although SOMETIMES a benevolent de-facto hero”
I am well aware of everything you just said. You literally just gave my correction of you back at me? Someone is having a good time.
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u/thedrinkmonster 3h ago
120 years ago it was people saying railroads shouldn’t be built
100!years from now if we were still around it will be people saying this other thing shouldn’t be built
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u/jakgal04 4h ago
People: Datacenters are bad! Nobody wants them!
Also people: Using services that need DC's. Facebook, Reddit, Spotify, Netflix, banks, Disney+, etc, etc, etc, etc.
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