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Post by happytoexplain »

pibaker wrote: post #228
jrowen wrote: post #221

It blows my mind that (my fellow) Americans are so averse to taxation that they don't even consider that option. Whether you're worried about jobs or faraway tech elites or resource usage....just go straight to the source and use freaking taxes. Blocking is so pointless. All this political will could be a huge opportunity for these locales but instead it's petulant obstructionism. The Millenium Scholarship program in…

Why would the data center operators pay extra taxes to your city when they can just build them somewhere else that gives them a tax break instead?

I don't understand what you're trying to say - you're describing a win-win.

Pay the citizens the price, or don't burden them in the first place. There are two options, and the data center builders may pick either.

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Post by hackernud3s »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #347
hackernud3s wrote: post #260

I think it's ironic that we have no problem putting DCs next to a prison but god forbid we put them next to a zoo which is the same thing but for animals.

Prison is where we put people who have broken laws. A zoo is primarily where we put animals who are incapable of surviving in the wild. It is also a place where the next generation can learn the wonder and beauty of nature. They also tend to work closely with conservation efforts worldwide. So... yeahhh, no. Not at all the same.

You're saying it's ok to torture humans with something that's unacceptable for zoo animals provided they broke some laws. That's the part I'm taking issue with.

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Post by happytoexplain »

duxup wrote: post #339

We’ve been building data centers for many decades without problems. I used to service equipment at some in my area. Many had big chunks of green space around them, very desirable to live near. The current climate around seems very sudden.

You can't think of a single new development in the situation?

Sorry to be snide - you can certainly make an argument that the demands of AI should not affect public perception of data centers, but you should simply make that argument, rather than mysteriously omitting any reference to the issue.

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Post by duxup »

happytoexplain wrote: post #503
duxup wrote: post #339

We’ve been building data centers for many decades without problems. I used to service equipment at some in my area. Many had big chunks of green space around them, very desirable to live near. The current climate around seems very sudden.

You can't think of a single new development in the situation? Sorry to be snide - you can certainly make an argument that the demands of AI should not affect public perception of data centers, but you should simply make that argument, rather than mysteriously omitting any reference to the issue.

Yes, I can, it doesn’t change my observation.

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Post by evilduck »

esposm03 wrote: post #430
applicative wrote: post #413

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Spain and EU are like eg Connecticut

Care to elaborate?

Climate-wise I presume. Spain sits on a similar latitude to Connecticut, and much of the EU sits north of the US population.

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Post by wewtyflakes »

culi wrote: post #420
wewtyflakes wrote: post #242

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Didn't the Loma Prieta earthquake do that?

No it was the Freeway Revolt

I don't know that those timelines make sense; there were highways going through San Francisco... until the Loma Prieta earthquake; and then suddenly not. A cursory look at what Freeway Revolt was, seems to point to a movement in the 1950-1960's, rather than the early 1990's.

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Post by no-name-here »

mrguyorama wrote: post #492
no-name-here wrote: post #134

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I think that’s how DCs mark an exponential growth in NIMBYism and its acceptance - we’re already seeing city-wide, county-wide, even state-wide bans, even in states where much of the state is very low density. If this kind of NIMBYism becomes accepted, I expect to see similar broader bans against multi-family housing, mass-transit, etc.

>we’re already seeing city-wide, county-wide, even state-wide bans, even in states where much of the state is very low density Are we actually though? I bet you heard about the Maine datacenter moratorium that passed our state legislature. It generated tons of conversation here on HN. Did you also hear that our Democrat governor vetoed it, and it did not become law? How many of these moratoriums are actually getting…

New York also enacted a moratorium, and in recent days Texas stopped any new data center from being connected to the grid (the Texas one was done through the governor’s power over the grid).

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Post by inigyou »

mafuy wrote: post #465
inigyou wrote: post #295

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Can noise that can be heard a kilometer away really not be heard from the other side of a building? Noise absorbing panels block airflow, if you didn't know that. Useless for AC.

You don't need to block the airway. Air and sound move differently, so you absorb on paths that sounds likes to travel and minimize obstruction on the air path. Something akin to a Tesla valve. I'm willing to bet that you can make the exhaust noise near inaudible if you want to. Problem is, it costs a couple 10k dollars or so, and why pay for that if you can just fuck over the neighbour instead?

Tesla valve noise cancellers are not a thing that exists. Why don't you go and invent them before telling the rest of us we should just buy them for $200 each?

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

f4c39012 wrote: post #302
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #230

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Property taxes are ordinarily a percentage of the value of the land and structures because in most cases it has some approximation to services consumed. A building with twice as many condo units might require twice as many police, create twice as much traffic, etc. A large data center could plausibly be sitting on a piece of land worth a million dollars and then have a billion dollars worth of equipment in it, but st…

You're missing the point. Towns come out ahead when the people living there come out ahead. I'm not arguing with your math, but your math is also a straight line to a town with no people at all being better. Towns are for _people_.

Where do you get the premise that the people living there don't come out ahead?

You have something which, if it moves in, would pay more in property that than it consumes in services. Even at a significant discount to the ordinary property tax rate. If the net benefit after the discount is +$1M/year to the local coffers then the local people are benefiting in that amount, and it's easy to see numbers like that even after offering significant tax incentives.

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