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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don't think we'd be seeing organized political action against them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm aware of that, but at some point it's also like when the Ming Dynasty destroyed their naval fleet for political reasons. They still needed a normal navy for even local maritime trade. They killed it all and caused (in a reductive sense) a 200 year depression.

    We still need data centers for literally a million things that aren't LLMs. And personally, I'm 100% on board to shoot that LLM shit into orbit. Get your solar from the source and fuck off.

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