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US data center protests go national as backlash grows (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 month ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[+] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is gonna go really well when people find out the only way to safely store health and justice data is in a specialized building.

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[–] Polyphilic@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Thats already happened.

These data centers are for AI to scrape data from you, that's it.

Dont conflate things.

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Only because hyperscale AI Data Centers and the kind of data centers we already had got conflated. That was almost certainly intentional.

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