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Wisconsin town unanimously votes to ban data centers (wisconsinwatch.org)

submitted 4 months ago by StopTech@lemmy.today to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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[–] brian@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

just to be a voice of dissidence, not all data centers fuel AI, and they're certainly vital to a vast amount of the internet.

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[–] StopTech@lemmy.today [S] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The internet functioned before data centers. It was much better back when websites were personal home pages.

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

I wish we could get that back

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[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They shouldnt be and the internet was better when it was a bunch of script kiddies writing HTML sites in their bedrooms on their own machines instead of the internet being owned by 5 companies.

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Back when we thought marquee and blinkentext were the evils of the internet.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

They were gateway styles.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

And also mention that one of the biggest data center companies in Europe uses wind energy >99% of the time

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[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Sure they do.

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