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[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

What I dislike is the lumping of all datacenters into one hated bucket. I suspect people don't realize that, for example, the fediverse........... exists in datacenters. Take away datacenters and the entire internet goes away.

I think what people don't want is a bunch of shitty datacenters (meaning using shitty power sources, for example) that are being built for AI or massive government/private data over-reach.

You WANT some datacenters...............

This is like being against............ prepared food. Sure, cooking from scratch is better, but outlaw all prepared foods and now you will be exhausted cooking every single day. We depend on some prepared foods. What we want is less added sugar, more healthy prepared foods, safer food, at a lower cost. We want improvements, not a complete ban.

Same with datacenters.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 42 minutes ago

The U.S. has over 3000 datacenters, which is 10x 2nd place (Germany). Most are very small nondescript buildings near the airport.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is like saying anyone against Big Oil doesn’t understand that cars need gasoline.

Data centers are unregulated, inefficient, ecologically destructive resource pits parasitical on local townships. They’re a blight that needs to be regulated or curtailed. Anyone who is not against them is simply insulated from the externalities of their cancerous existence.

Now Imagine a world where data centers had to use (and purify) wastewater and generate their own clean energy. Why, then I’d be all for them!

[-] patruelis@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, no one cares, no one does anything 😔

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 4 points 6 hours ago

Politicians do things. They allow them because they work for the corporations.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 4 hours ago

no shit it’s literally the latest popular hysteria at the moment

[-] Brewchin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

This is profoundly... meaningless?

"Data centres bad"... does it factor in anything beyond popular perception? Sounds like it's just "tell me your 'feelings' about..." Fuck off.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Do you understand the point of polls? They give hard data points so instead of people saying "I hear X" and making guesses, this is actual data on what people feel and think.

I think what you mean is that these results don't surprise you. That's fine. It's still valuable data. Maybe just not to you.

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