That doesn’t mean said technology should not be regulated to make sure the technology is done to benefit and not destroy. The automotive industry and transportation are both heavily regulated.framer wrote:Just a few decades ago people feared that computers would take all the jobs away. Before that it was the steam engine. And I'm sure some caveman threw a hissy-fit the first time he saw a wheel.
New technology can be scary, but the world adapts and moves on.
I said before, put one on the workhouse site and TIF it using all the money raised for North city needs.gone corporate wrote: ↑5:45 PM - Feb 18https://youtube.com/shorts/Sh5h5rpJcQY? ... H0Iiidx0Ch
A short argument for data center construction in North City along the river.
Their argument is very sound. Put the data centers in the established North Broadway / Hall Street industrial area with heavy capacity and no proximate residential, and in an area that already has excess capacities for power sourcing and related infrastructure. Plus, it's along the highway and along rail routes with heavy freight train traffic, so any potential noise should be abated by the hum of wheels anyways, both rubber car tires and steel train wheels. Then, see if new, direct power generation can be sourced from the river itself. There's no realistic argument that data centers will go away fully; in fact, we're going to need a lot more. Get them in the blighted brownfields rather than in green fields out in the middle of nowhere. And if they're in the City, then we get the tax revenues that we very desperately need.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448odbInSouthCity wrote:I live a 100 yards from a data center and none of that is happening
And how many square feet is it and how many watts? I don't want to say the woman's plumbing issue is Meta's fault. Maybe it is, or maybe she just hasn't maintained the plumbing on her house. There's a thousand things that could go wrong there. But I think it's deeply unfair comparing something like AT&T's switching operations or a SLU's server farm with even something like a classic Amazon cloud service center, let alone Meta AI's needs. Things behave differently at scale. Which is why we started changing building codes when things started to get taller than about ten stories, but not until after there was a significant body count to underscore the problems. This is no different. I'm guessing you live next to the Wainright of data centers. The Empire State of data centers is not downtown. And the Burj Khalifa of data centers hasn't even been built yet. (And maybe won't be, since some of the same inefficiencies that plague buildings beyond about 30 stories will probably plague data centers beyond a certain size, and possibly for related reasons: it becomes more and more complicated to provide circulation, utilities, and environmental control for things as the scale of a structure increases, even if that structure only houses electrons.)dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑6:14 PM - Feb 23I live a 100 yards from a data center and none of that is happening
They print money for the communities they’re in through taxes.Bart Harley Jarvis wrote:Genuinely, what is the benefit to any one particular municipality to house a data center?
