I think actual digital data centers can have value for humanity. You need to store things like Wikipedia and Archive.org and other worthwhile sites and services somewhere.

What is shit is the explosion in "data" centers that are really more like gigawatt space heaters that spit out fake images and wrong statements on the side.

I used to shelve books for a living. I just love being in libraries. I like how quite they are... I love that people there have a purpose and it is noble. I love how it is the number one weapon against fascism. I love libraries. It is no wonder why they are defunding them in the USA. We are a disgusting people. I live in the arm pit of the world.

Bro. IDK about other countries, but In India, Library Owners have changed the definition of Libraries. Now it is basically a room with desks and computers where people come to study with their own study material instead of having their own collection of books, study material (neither physical nor digital). It is a nice place to study but it ain't a library, it is just a study room for fuck's sake.

Have you ever seen a Cybertruck in the parking lot of the public library? Thought so.

The replies on this thread are absolutely fascinating. How can people be against physical books is a riddle to me.

disagreed if it weren't for digital media I wouldn't have learned what I know today

...that looks more like a half-price books than a library...

I'm half-expecting to see a full-torso apparition in that photo. Maybe some symmetrical book stacking, like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.

Furry pr0n digital data centres (non-AI) are culturally important too - and it's just not possible to print out everything, there is way too much stuff.

Won't you think of the poor furries?
Who do you think keeps all the internet infrastructure up & running??