• Drewmeister@lemmy.world
    48·
    21 hours ago

    My city council was fine with the data center. Then the citizens brought a guillotine to the proceedings, and they had second thoughts.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      18 hours ago

      At least something made them reconsider. Land zoned for housing development near where I live just got abandoned after multiple years owned by some shitheads who were suing the local government for not allowing them to turn it into a ground shipping hub in the middle of miles of residential land (broken up with the occasional school and strip mall type businesses), only for the land to be picked up by a group trying to build a data center claiming it would bring significant jobs to the area.

      I’ve been to a few data centers for work. Job hubs they ain’t.

    • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Well I can educate about as well as AI. Regurgitating info I found on a vaguely related Reddit thread as well as include incorrect info on something completely unrelated.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    19 hours ago

    I’ll make sure to leave plenty of illegal pollution in my surroundings, and to emanate sub-audible frequencies harmful to human health for a multiple mile radius.

    Precariously balancing a terrible mobius strip of circular financing that itself props up the majority of the US stock market might be a little tough though. Anyone have any tips?

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
      4·
      18 hours ago

      Sub Audible makes it sound like the people who claim wind turbines are giving them migraines.

      Many datacenters are just audible. 50 tractor trailer sized gas generators are plenty audible from a good distance.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        Yeah, far_university got it. Infrasound is what I was referring to specifically, and your comment has me wondering now if there’s been any attempts to measure for it around wind turbines too.

        The known negative health effects from the noise pollution around data centers are bad enough, but there’s evidence of further effects than that due to the infrasound as well, which isn’t immediately obvious as it’s not within human hearing range

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Do not consume as much water as possible.

    You will puke, and if you don’t puke, you will die.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Well, often more than they strictly need. Because many of them opt for lossy evaporative cooling, rather than closed-loop cooling, because it’s simpler, cheaper, and more effective … just at the slight cost of using up our limited fresh water reserves at an alarming rate.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    treat your body like a datacenter that has been planned poorly and pushed through local government

    Fixed it for ya.

    Remember, kids, if you like your health data to be safely stored so when you have a car accident you can survive with a drug allergy (long enough to get the bill, if American), then you want that data stored where it’s safe. That’s a datacenter. If you like the idea of criminals getting their just desserts one day, you want the evidence stored safely where fire/flood/tornado/theft/vandalism can’t destroy it and deny us justice. That’s a datacenter (and maybe a salt mine in nevada, but you get it).

    If you hate evaporative cooling and diesel power generation, you hate bad datacenters, and you need to rail against councils approving bad plans and/or you need to ensure the new council you elect will slap the ratfuckers with legal challenge after enviro violation until they can do little else but sell it off to someone else (ohai code compliance on sold structures).