Beholden to Big Tech, Grandpa Pudding Brains demands more data centers
by Jason Weisberger · Boing BoingDon't want a giant ghost building full of power-sucking, heat-generating computers at the end of your street? Enjoy being "backwards and poor," says Diaper Don.
Folks building data centers for the AI bubble now eye neighborhoods with excess power and space. What was meant to be headroom for your community to grow, housing to be built, or businesses to employ people suddenly looks like an unmanned goldmine humming at the end of your street. Donald Trump thinks you should be grateful.
Data can live just fine next to power generation stations out in the middle of nowhere. Put them at the foot of a dam, next to the nuclear power plant. No one wants to live next to a monolith pumping out hot air to generate CSAM.
The Golden Goose would like access to your electrical grid.
Previously:
• Microsoft cancels $1bn data center planned in Ohio, suggests they use land for farms
• County with 37 data centers tells schools to turn off lights to save electricity
• 'We don't want to be outside': neighbors can't stand noisy data center
• Trump's Environmental 'Protection' Agency approves toxic data center chemicals
• Doing no 'evil,' Google proposes paving over protected wetlands for a data center