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Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by bastawhiz »

weaksauce wrote: post #5

what's funny is the website looks AI generated though that's just the style of the time i guess.

I came here to say this. I'm highly confident the site was built with Claude. I asked Claude how it was built and Claude was confident it was built with Claude. Kind of ironic, honestly.

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by atonse »

weaksauce wrote: post #5

what's funny is the website looks AI generated though that's just the style of the time i guess.

No I actually do think this is AI generated. I came here to say the same.

Brokovich might not know it. But her web people certainly used AI to build this site. From the Emojis, cards, to the single colored left border.

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by NDlurker »

ViktorRay wrote: post #8

I saw a comment from another site that a lot of the data center locations on this map aren’t accurate. Is there any truth to that?

I looked around North Dakota and there are several that say community reported. Pretty sure those either don't exist or aren't significant in size if they do exist.

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by efnx »

It’s interesting how many more community reported data centres there are compared to operational and proposed. I’m wondering if this is because of over reporting? Like - does the public mistake any new, big building as a data centre, or are the other categories under reported (or something else)?

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by regularization »

tqi wrote: post #6

"...investigating data centers is quickly becoming its own beat" ie it is in the economic interest of the writers to tap into (and foment) the FUD around "data centers."

That data centers are burning fossil fuels and burning up the earth is not FUD.

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by weaksauce »

atonse wrote: post #12
weaksauce wrote: post #5

what's funny is the website looks AI generated though that's just the style of the time i guess.

No I actually do think this is AI generated. I came here to say the same. Brokovich might not know it. But her web people certainly used AI to build this site. From the Emojis, cards, to the single colored left border.

the more I look at it the more I think this is AI yeah. sigh. I'm tired boss.

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by altairprime »

efnx wrote: post #14

It’s interesting how many more community reported data centres there are compared to operational and proposed. I’m wondering if this is because of over reporting? Like - does the public mistake any new, big building as a data centre, or are the other categories under reported (or something else)?

Are privately-held datacenters counted? Like, prssumably chipmakers have a few of their own in their home regions..?

Re: Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

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Post by bob1029 »

ViktorRay wrote: post #8

I saw a comment from another site that a lot of the data center locations on this map aren’t accurate. Is there any truth to that?

I was thinking some of the community ones are bogus and then I started looking closer at a few of the hotspots. There is what appears to be a compelling site for a datacenter right in the middle of a cluster of these reports:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZyt5Yb3kqxj5thc8

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