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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. therein · 1791150318 · focus · HN ↗

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      1. fasterik · 1791150919 · focus · HN ↗

         >Get out of here. Either you have a simple mind or you are commenting in bad faith.

         I find it more and more common that people who disagree online respond by attacking the commenter personally instead of addressing their arguments. Saying "it's bigger" isn't enough; you need to explain why a building full of computers is fine if it's 100 acres but not if it's 1000 acres. You also need to explain why we shouldn't oppose comparable scale manufacturing, research, or warehousing facilities.

         Cameras are different than data centers. Trying to connect the two is a rhetorical technique, not an argument.

         1. goda90 · 1791177570 · focus · HN ↗

            Calling people's concerns a moral panic is a personal attack too.

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