Today the Sagrada Familia, now the tallest church in the world, was inaugurated in Spain, 100 years after the death of its architect Gaudì.
Can you imagine the number of H100s we could have put in there if this was Texas?
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center
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Why can’t gifts have contracts?
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#293[flagged]
If you don't want to abide by the conditions of a gift - don't accept it.
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#294Can it be both? Trying to think of a data centre themed expedition now where you go visit the robots and interact with the machines
You know, you joke (I think?) but data center companies could genuinely at least open up for tours to try to appeal to the public, if public approval is apparently such a concern. It's funny that they haven't done it at all yet.
Think nuclear power plants in the 60s or 70s, many of them were open for tours or school field trips or such to try to make them more appealing to the populace around them. I haven't heard of a single DC doing the same thing, unless you're a potential customer. Isn't this stuff kind of basic?
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#296American zoning is weird. You can't walk to a grocery store, but you can walk to a data center.
Whats really frustrating is how silicon valley fights tooth and nail to stop housing from being built in their community only to force these data centers onto everybody else's communities.
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The intent was to gift a park.
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#298Can it be both? Trying to think of a data centre themed expedition now where you go visit the robots and interact with the machines
You know, you joke (I think?) but data center companies could genuinely at least open up for tours to try to appeal to the public, if public approval is apparently such a concern. It's funny that they haven't done it at all yet. Think nuclear power plants in the 60s or 70s, many of them were open for tours or school field trips or such to try to make them more appealing to the populace around them. I haven't heard of…
That won't work when your tour guide can't even answer questions about what the computers do because theyre all running VMs that are rented out on an ad-hoc basis.
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That's an ignorant simplification of how property ownership works. For example, defeasible estates are not a new or rare thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeasible_estate
Granting land conditionally such that the ownership reverts once the condition stops being met is very much a thing. I can't find the full details of this particular case, but it sounds like the property went through a long sequences of transfers that probably make the legal situation tricky.