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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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People have gotten so intense with the anti-AI sentiment that I hope this doesn't end up guiding people to places where they can exercise violence "for a just cause".

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That’s not violence. The word “violence” doesn’t mean anything you don’t like.

I don’t understand why some people want to call everything violence. Watering down the meaning of a word doesn’t help anything.

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

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Why go through the effort when such work has already been done? https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/ Not being negative. But isn’t there existing highly reliable data that already exists for this?

I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?

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

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I don’t get the issue with the data centers, maybe instead of looking at just the data centers they should look at all the rest of the land in the US along with it and see how truly small these things are.

Nobody is complaining about the acreage used. The objection is power and water consumption and any other externalities imposed on the local community. If they were just purchasing 100 acre lots of land and letting it sit vacant I don't think anyone would really care for the most part.

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

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

“Privately-held”? I don’t think governments are building them.

Companies that aren’t publicly traded, is another way to say that.

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

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Opposition data center is stupid. We need as many data centers as possible. If you actually want to make a difference how about you mandate that they all come with their own solar and battery power packs. When the hell did the left become so regressive?

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

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

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> I also think Americans have the right to decide what happens in their neighborhoods.

I agree with this.

At the same time, all of the data center proposals in my state are in remote locations nowhere near any residences. They’re still the target of protests.

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

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People have gotten so intense with the anti-AI sentiment that I hope this doesn't end up guiding people to places where they can exercise violence "for a just cause".

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Jobs, progress, cheap tokens, growth

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

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I love this. Yeah there's some FUD out there about water usage and whatnot, but using the internet to spread actual awareness about local concerns is a fine demonstration of free speech at work.

If slop is more expensive to produce, maybe there will be less of it clogging up the digital commons.

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

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You can click on that to see more detail :)

I guess it’s just not designed for mobile. Tapping didn’t reveal anything.

It works well on Android. Just zoom in and click the number, and you can breakdown per state. Click on any state number and it breaks down per city.

Pretty functional design.

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