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On-site natural gas turbines at a handful of DCs are genuinely loud. In general I agree that DCs are mostly fine neighbors, but maybe louder power plants aren'
by loeg 4mo ago
On-site natural gas turbines at a handful of DCs are genuinely loud. In general I agree that DCs are mostly fine neighbors, but maybe louder power plants aren't.
- TitaRusell 4mo agoYeah this is it. You can make really nice datacenters that are basically quiet and environmentally perfect. This was never in dispute. But that is not how corporations roll. They want the cheapest shit that they can get away with. No regulations only corruption. Which is middle of nowhere America.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoAnd if they put them in the middle of nowhere, I don't see why there's a problem. What I don't understand is putting these things in populated areas.
- lstodd 4mo agoWould you like to work in the middle of nowhere?
- SoftTalker 4mo agoAfter construction, not all that many people work at a data center. Some ops staff, maybe a small security team.
- lstodd 4mo agoSo let's spit on those 'not so many people' from our ivory tower? Besides, it's not about people, it's about power. Pulling a few MW into middle of nowhere is prohibitively expensive.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoIf they can be deployed in low-earth orbit with nobody working on them, they can be deployed 20 miles east of Bumfuck, Nebraska with nobody working on them.
- cameron_b 4mo agoThe physical threat model of the Nebraska option does not rely on the tyranny of the rocket to keep intruders away.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoThe point is that if you don't put them in the middle of somebody's neighborhood, nobody will care to attack them. The idea of building robust, lightly-staffed technical facilities in obscure places all over the country is nothing even remotely new. It's how the long-distance telephone network was constructed and successfully operated in the decades before satellites took over: https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-distance-network/history-of-att-long-lines/ https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-...
- loeg 4mo ago30 minutes outside of the suburbs doesn't sound like an awful commute.
- spongebobstoes 4mo agothey just want data centers now. most companies would rather use solar, but they can't on short timelines due to land use regulations (and import tariffs)