Power-hungry data centres are being met with stiff resistance in parts of the world.Lawmakers in Maine voted this month to advance a bill that would impose a m…
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Yeah nah, data centres sucking up power while we're begging people not to dry their washing after 6pm. Classic.
but they bring jobs and investment to the regions. Did you think about that?
Stabilise my arse. They'll just pass the cost onto us and call it 'grid optimisation'.
thing with electric cars. They'll promise the world and then we'll all pay for it.
Aren't they the same people who said crypto mining was good for the grid? lmao now it's AI's turn
So we build more data centres, power prices go up, and then they sell us 'smart home' solutions. Fts.
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that, and the power companies will take all the profit.
I actually work in the industry and they can help with frequency keeping. But yeah, the big tech companies are just looking for cheap electrons to burn.
What even is a data centre do? Genuinely asking. Is it just a big room of servers?
fuckin rooms full of servers and they get hot as hell so they need more power to cool them. Wasteful as.
Maybe if they stopped mining bitcoin and playing with ChatGPT we wouldn't need all this power. Just saying.
stuffed, we need AI to cure diseases and solve climate change. Don't be a luddite.
Schneider Electric boss says this. Of course he does. Like a barber telling you need a haircut.
they bring a few maintenance jobs and then huge power bills for everyone else. Not worth it.
