I don't get it, why do we need so fucking many? Reading the thread about temps downwind from data centers and it's describing all the multiple HUGE data centers just around phoenix and it's just, like, why are they building so fucking many???

It's one thing to be like "yeah we're building a facility that uses more power than human civilization to power the Lying Machine" but it's like they're building fucking thousands of them. What the fuck is that?

Let's be incredibly generous and assume The Nerds invent intelligence, even then what is the fucking point of all this shit

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[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I visited my sister last month and we went to Costco to buy some supplies for a BBQ we were gonna have with her husband and some of his family.

In the parking lot I heard an annoying dull humming sound and asked her wtf that was. She pointed to some warehouse looking building across the highway and said "data center". God fucking forbid you have an apartment near one of those things!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

It's not even that it's impossible to to avoid the noise pollution. It would cost more and they just don't care.