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1. aliasxneo · 1791145670 · focus · HN ↗

   I lived in a smaller rural town near a Google datacenter. During my career there I had routinely come across some outlandish accusations made about our water/power usage from the locals. But for obvious reasons I could never dispute them. I remember we hired a local who'd grown up in the town and he was "really surprised" when he started to see what we were doing to remain efficient.

   The current data center craze just feels like the same thing but on a bigger scale.

   1. cassianoleal · 1791153493 · focus · HN ↗

      > The current data center craze just feels like the same thing but on a bigger scale.

      At a large enough scale, it doesn't matter how efficient you are - you're still causing a more damage than the region or the world can take.

      1. bloaf · 1791155975 · focus · HN ↗

         There's also a lot of folks out there with no sense of scale getting "dihydrogen-monoxieded" by scaremongering tactics like measuring power consumption in number of atomic bombs.

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