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Nobody's shutting off those 150 homes to take their electricity, though. They have to buy it themselves. Lots of industrial things take tons of energy, from met
by xp84 4mo ago
Nobody's shutting off those 150 homes to take their electricity, though. They have to buy it themselves. Lots of industrial things take tons of energy, from metal smelting to food production.
Oh, and datacenters alone shouldn't even make electricity more expensive, because rates are regulated. The state regulators have to approve rate raises. Now, are the regulators a bunch of stooges captured by the utilities who always do their bidding? Probably! But that's a good reason to throw your corrupt state politicians out of office and hopefully run them out of town on a rail -- not to protest datacenters.
- multjoy 4mo agoMetal and food are useful, though.
- cobbzilla 4mo agothe irony of making an implied point that data centers aren’t useful, by using data centers.
- AngryData 4mo agoPretty sure hackernews doesn't take a giant datacenter to run. Its a text-only website managed by nerds. If HN didn't care about redundancy they could probably host it out of somebody's basement.
- cobbzilla 4mo agoAnd there are zero data centers in between facilitating anything?
- 20after4 4mo agoThe data centers that already exist are one thing, creating a lot of new ones isn't necessary simply to continue supporting hacker news traffic. These new data centers are entirely a speculative buildout of new capacity to support theoretical (and some existing) demand for AI compute.
- multjoy 4mo agoThe irony of suggesting that this site is useful.