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Re: When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

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Post by hylaride »

quickthrowman wrote: post #152
hylaride wrote: post #144

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Kevin O’Leary is a grifter and he should be completely ignored. He literally got rich conning HP (though they were stupid for going ahead with it). That being said, there is a lot of actual buildouts happening right now. The question is how much of the planned future capacity will actually get developed.

I thought he got rich conning Mattel to buy The Learning Company in 1999? They paid $3.5B for it and gave it away a year later. Then there was a lawsuit with a $100M+ settlement. Kevin O’Leary also published pictures of him shedding tears while buying an Audemars Piguet watch, which should be brought up and mocked every time he’s mentioned.

You're right, I misremembered. HP was conned by a British guy named Mike Lynch.

Re: When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

left-struck wrote: post #45
throwaway667555 wrote: post #40

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They buzz loudly and increase leukemia.

Sources?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starglider

The crackling of HV-lines was used as a sound-effect in that game. 'Realistically'. Using that buzz and crackle from reality, only slightly ampflified.

Re: When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

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Post by DecoySalamander »

inigyou wrote: post #85
DecoySalamander wrote: post #46

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The only losers are foreign adversaries who would prefer it if your country didn't develop high-tech infrastructure and businesses.

Good point. Let's seize your house and make it a semiconductor fab.

Losing my home would suck, but the prospect of having a semiconductor fab in my country, in my city even, is so exciting that I would be 100% on board with it.

Re: When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

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Post by sznio »

jasonjayr wrote: post #134
sznio wrote: post #86

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you've never walked under a high voltage power line? even driving a car under it you can hear the radio being weird. i assume it can make life miserable for a ham radio enthusiast. also, walking beneath one, you can hear the crackle, which is why nobody places a power line above homes. as for them causing leukemia i'd not consider that realistic

My home is like 1500 ft from HV lines. According to OSM, they are 115kV. Some of my neighbors are even closer. These things are totally built near homes.

near sure, i live in a city and people have lines right next to their homes, but never right above them because that's what causes issues.
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