'America hates data centers,' new database reveals more than 90% of 10,000 public comments are negative, only 21% mention AI — 73% of meetings had no data center supporters, water is the number one concern
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A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments across more than 410 local governments, and it's bad news for data center builders.
  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    We already did that and the early internet was wildly power inefficient and unreliable. I’d rather have a million websites in one DC than a million server closets splattered all over the planet.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      The power efficiency ran us afoul of the Jevons paradox, and more distributed outages is better than fewer universal outages.