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This is completely insane
These States are effectively helping finance a significant portion of data centers' costs through tax exemptions
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
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As i said, it's beneficial to the economy if people burn down a datacenter. Less power and water consumption and wastage, less space used by useless tech that only based on promises and that we don't really need, more RAM for consumer tech that do actually get taxed.
Just to check, you know that you're most probably using datacenter facilities this very moment?
Well in context we're talking about AI datacenter, the kind that specifically build for AI.
They are on lemmy.zip, which I believe uses Hetzner (one of least wasteful data centers).
You, on the other hand…
That doesn’t change the facts.