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Facebook selects Kansas City for new $800M data center
- Amfy 5y agoWhat if someone views HTML source code there? Did they put that into consideration?
- 30367286 5y agoI don’t understand this comment. Would you mind explaining?
- vmception 5y agoI think its about Missouri pretending that a journalist writing about publicly exposed information in HTML was a criminal violation
- linuxdaemon 5y agoMissouri governor accused a journalist of "hacking" a government site for viewing the HTML source and discovering that a bunch of teachers' social security numbers were embedded in the page. Instead of thanking him for finding and reporting the flaw so they could address the actual issue, the governor made legal threats. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-html-code-is-not-illegal-or-hacking-prof-tells-missouri-gov/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...
- 30367286 5y agoThis quote from the education commissioner cracked me up: In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.”
- linuxdaemon 5y ago"Unencrypted" by reading English-based text with his eyeballs :)
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- president 5y agoHow many people are needed to staff a modern data center?
- dayvid 5y agoIt says up to 100 jobs which is remarkably efficient.
- Amfy 5y agoThey do hire a lot of contractors for facility works. And keep in mind, all these jobs are usually very highly paid. These highly paid individuals will spend their money locally, want to buy a house. It's definitely good for the economy. Having many data centers in one spot, attracts even more data centers. Look at Loudon County. One of the highest income counties in all the U.S.
- vmception 5y ago
- kjellsbells 5y agoLoudoun was super wealthy before the data centers started springing up. It was where old VA money had their horse farms and wineries. What changed was a huge influx of very well paid tech and natsec jobs after 9/11. And as you say, data centers breed data centers. But they do not require a lot of people. A few dozen people for thousands of servers. KC is not mopping up the 5000 employees from, say, the former Sprint's headquarters with one or two data centers.
- Amfy 5y agoYou're probably right on Loudon County being wealthy before the data center boom (I'm not local). However I am sure having these data centers there didn't hurt either.
- mrclark411 5y agoData centers actually are a huge bonus to the county's taxes. It's a huge (to the point of being a risk) portion of the County's revenue.
- RONROC 5y agoPeople have a tendency to confuse this kind of business decision as something philanthropic, as if the great people of Kansas need this more than they will tolerate it. Non-story.
- lacker 5y agoModern large-scale datacenters are pretty neat. I recommend visiting a datacenter if you ever spend a chunk of time working for one of the FAANG companies... as a software engineer, I used to just think of it as a big room where you stick computers, and it kind of is that, but at the same time there is a lot of advanced work around power systems, cooling systems, and all this hardware that I usually have the luxury of ignoring. I visited the Facebook datacenter in Fort Worth and was surprised how many people there formerly worked on submarines. I guess the jobs are similar, you are maintaining a system of advanced electronics in a controlled environment.
- black_13 5y ago