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Mars doesn't have zoning laws yet. /jk
New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
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#22I don't get it, nyc wants to add government programs, they obviously need to tax something. Here come massive corps willing to invest a ton of money, just tax them at some reasonable rate and voila, you can now pay for city funded grocery stores or whatever
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there is something interesting about someone that says "I'm flagging anything I see that is uncivil" in their profile, but says "I think we should have public hangings for anyone who suggests clearing land for AI." in their comment.
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#24Am I the only one who wants a datacenter in his backyard? I actually went down a little over a year ago to get a cabinet down at Hosting.com’s old location round the corner only to find that they’ve been gone from there (and the DC business) for a few years now and the new owners have kept it fallow. I have to drive down to Fremont for a similar price point now. I would gladly have paid 30% more to just go down the s…
I’d love more datacenters so I can colo my pet projects and startup like I was doing in the early 2000s
The point where we decided we would put all infrastructure in N. Virginia, stop owning hardware and rent it from a corporation charging 10x markup was right about when the Internet started going downhill.
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#25I submitted this link, which is clearly written by an LLM but has a good overview. Here's the actual bill: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S10642
The submitted link is not even loading. Meanwhile, here are two independent LLM generated "news" article generated from the Assembly and Senate bills respectively:
https://gist.github.com/impredicative/483b46ff294be6b69b0a34...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
So other people's back yards it is! What a wonderful philosophy. As for Amazon HQ, I don't know what NY's deal was but I was in Boston when it was a consideration and the amount of tax breaks they wanted was insane and would have been a huge net loss for the city. I'm very glad it wasn't moved there. It doesn't matter if you create a few thousand jobs if you get literal billions in tax breaks, it's a net loss for the…
Well there are plenty of places that aren’t in anyone’s backyard
"Backyard" is obviously not to be taken literally. Anywhere you put one of these things is going to have an impact on the region. But perhaps you can provide some examples of places that are not in anyone's backyard?
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#27Am I the only one who wants a datacenter in his backyard? I actually went down a little over a year ago to get a cabinet down at Hosting.com’s old location round the corner only to find that they’ve been gone from there (and the DC business) for a few years now and the new owners have kept it fallow. I have to drive down to Fremont for a similar price point now. I would gladly have paid 30% more to just go down the s…
Datacenters are extremely loud, you definitely don't want one in your approximate backyard. Ever considered fan noise while shopping for laptops? If so, then you don't want to live within a mile of a datacenter.
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#29I submitted this link, which is clearly written by an LLM but has a good overview. Here's the actual bill: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S10642
The submitted link is not even loading. Meanwhile, here are two independent LLM generated "news" article generated from the Assembly and Senate bills respectively: https://gist.github.com/impredicative/483b46ff294be6b69b0a34...
HN hug of death :)
@dang can we change the URL to the bill link please?
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there is something interesting about someone that says " I'm flagging anything I see that is uncivil " in their profile, but says " I think we should have public hangings for anyone who suggests clearing land for AI. " in their comment.
I think I presented my thought in a civil manner.