‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by BaconWrappedEnigma to c/newzealand

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I'm a big fan of machine learning. I'd say this project needs a lot more public scrutiny.

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[-] Dave 11 points 4 months ago

This article repeats the claim it's NZ's first datacentre, in the headline and in the article, but I think it might be the first AI one or the first of it's size. It's certainly not the first datacentre in NZ!

[-] luthis 7 points 4 months ago

Having been inside many datacenters, this headline is incorrect or out of date

[-] Dave 6 points 4 months ago

Lemmy NZ is literally run from a data centre lol. This map has over 60 in NZ, and it probably doesn't even have all of them.

[-] deadbeef79000 5 points 4 months ago

It's just the typical quality of journalism. You can spot the factual errors because you know better: most people can't.

They'll be parroting whatever marketing drivel the company's provided them.

"NZ's first datacentre (of this scale | in this region | for this operator | dedicated to AI)"

The journalist just drops the 'confusing bit'.

[-] Dave 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah I guess this has been a thing my whole life. I remember reading newspapers thinking every article I have background knowledge in is wrong in some way, so we really need to take articles about things we don't understand with a grain of salt as well.