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1. fasterik · 1791149723 · focus · HN ↗

   The concern around data centers looks a lot like a moral panic. They've been around for decades and nobody cared before the backlash against AI. They're like any other industrial building, subject to the same resource constraints and zoning laws. I suspect if the owners of that land built a steel mill, a semiconductor fab, or anything other than a data center with similar power and water requirements, nobody would care.

   1. TheJoeMan · 1791167542 · focus · HN ↗

      These new proposals, which have been suspiciously hidden under NDA’s, misdirection, etc. are ENORMOUS. And the local permitting in my area has data centers categorized as “light industrial”, and thus passed a 1-year moratorium to revisit the code. I am fully aware of smaller data centers along the highway I drive every day with no issue, and as such I do not consider myself crazy.

      1. bryan_w · 1791173774 · focus · HN ↗

         But are the NDAs new, or were you manipulated into caring about them this time and not the 1000's of other times it's happened (across various industries)

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