▲ 961 ▼ In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters (www.theguardian.com) submitted 3 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 91 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] unknown@piefed.social 60 points 3 months ago (4 children) Will the billionaires let them do this? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children) You can be sure Monterey Park didn’t have any data centers to begin with. They aren’t exactly in every town. And there’s no shortage of towns ready to line up for data center money. I’m sure this town will be fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] unknown@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (2 children) I don't understand why you said the first bit, nowhere had data centres to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Not all datacenters focus on ai. Even before ai, the US had many, many datacenters permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago Aye fair enough, my bad. I've been having this ai datacentre discussion in a few places recently and the whole concept of datacentres had become linked to ai in my mind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children) You can be sure Monterey Park didn’t have any data centers to begin with. They aren’t exactly in every town. And there’s no shortage of towns ready to line up for data center money. I’m sure this town will be fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] unknown@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (2 children) I don't understand why you said the first bit, nowhere had data centres to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Not all datacenters focus on ai. Even before ai, the US had many, many datacenters permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago Aye fair enough, my bad. I've been having this ai datacentre discussion in a few places recently and the whole concept of datacentres had become linked to ai in my mind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unknown@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (2 children) I don't understand why you said the first bit, nowhere had data centres to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Not all datacenters focus on ai. Even before ai, the US had many, many datacenters permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago Aye fair enough, my bad. I've been having this ai datacentre discussion in a few places recently and the whole concept of datacentres had become linked to ai in my mind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) Not all datacenters focus on ai. Even before ai, the US had many, many datacenters permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago Aye fair enough, my bad. I've been having this ai datacentre discussion in a few places recently and the whole concept of datacentres had become linked to ai in my mind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unknown@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago Aye fair enough, my bad. I've been having this ai datacentre discussion in a few places recently and the whole concept of datacentres had become linked to ai in my mind. permalink fedilink source parent