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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Besides resources who is behind them. What data are they after and who are they selling it to and for what purposes. I think we should be very skeptical. If there is nothing to hide. Why are they building them all over like there is no tomorrow.?

Oddly enough we all did well in all of those things without these data centers. This is nothing more than domestic surveillance writ large with the bogus claim of a better quality of life.

Anyone remember the Covid vaccines? People were coerced into taking them with the claim that your life will be better.

Not buying it.

I hope they all have massive failures and go up in smoke taking all of their precious surveillance data with them

I'm going to assume that's a joke or something.

Burn it all down make us the weakest country on the planet. There's no comparison of a building to an unproven medicine. It sounds like the people who destroyed the factory machines a hundred years ago or the unions that protest advancement. Whatever surveillance you are worried about would still exist, even if you attacked as many data centers as you could.

The best thing you could do if you are worried about surveillance would be to destroy you phone, your computer, and every electronic device you own even if not connected to the internet. Then join an Amish community.

Funny thing is that even the Amish were spied upon for producing uncertified raw, milk. They just sent in human assets and did it the old school way.

There's are numerous other reasons AI scares me other than the FBI stealing my grocery list. It's shocking anyone would actually want the US to become a third world country.

Data centers have existed since the 1960's. I did electrical work in them in the early 2000's the only real change over time has been efficiency.

Very well said, Jesse.

I’d be more supportive in general of data centers if their mega sized tech company owners would come forward and say they were wrong about manmade climate change. Tell the world they got it wrong. There’s nothing “green” about data centers and that’s fine, but those same tech companies are trying to tell me that internal combustion engines are going to be the end of the planet. It’s lunacy.

Also, how about putting these data centers in inner cities? There’s tons of abandoned factory sites in Detroit, Flint and throughout the rust belt. I’m sure there’s lots of available space in other big cities too. Why do they have to build campuses in undeveloped areas? Let’s use our land wisely.

There is a natural fear of the unknown. In Goochland County, the newest and the ritziest subdivisions are now going to be adjacent to a data center. Much consternation. 90 foot tall buildings will be permitted in a very suburban area. Generator noise has been restricted to certain hours only. Supervisors were harangued by citizens. Signs were hung, threatening to hang the horse thieves who are making the data centers.

We all want our lives to remain as we hoped they would be. Urban and urbane. Rural and bucolic. Suburban and safe. Any disruption, real or imagined, attacks our self-satisfaction. "I loved this neighborhood, now it's gone to h@ll in a handbasket with all the nearby apartments springing up."

There is also the general unease about what is coming. Is it the boogeyman? Is it disease? Is it the end of the world as we know it? Data centers have not, to my awareness, done much to describe their role in our generally Pleasant Valley sunrises. What is a data center? What is inside it? What does it do? Why does it need power? Why does it need water? What benefit do I realize from a data center? Is it truly to serve mankind, or is it "To Serve Mankind?"