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What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters? That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see peo
by Borealid 3mo ago
What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters?
That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see people complaining about steel. Data centers just don't take up much space or power in the scope of industrial manufacturing.
Your other arguments are legitimate, but "it's a waste of electricity" and "data centers make some significant difference to a nontrivial number of people" are not the same propositions.
- sroerick 3mo agoI live in rural Wyoming and it's a huge deal here, if these projects go through many people are affected. Some of these data centers are multiple orders of magnitude bigger than a blast furnace. I think people are pissed that they're subsidizing the R+D cost of their own unemployment.
- Borealid 3mo agoI'm sorry it affects you directly, but the number of people who live in the whole state of Wyoming is around a half-million (even ignoring "rural"). If every single person in the entire state were affected, that would be 1/650th of the population of the United States affected, to say nothing of the world. There's just no way it's a significant factor in overall sentiment.