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Why do we need data centers?
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Anonymous 23h

So you can make a post on Yik Yak asking why we need data centers

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Anonymous 1d

The data centers have the servers inside which process all the AI questions from Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. it’s frustrating I like AI but I know the data centers are terrible for communities and the environment

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Anonymous 23h

They’re not that bad it is exaggerated a lot If we don’t do it someone else will and all the economic benefits of it will go to someone else

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Anonymous 23h

The free enterprise system generates a lot of things we don't necessarily need. The tech companies want to do it. They think ai has major business implications. And they're doing it. They didn't need some kind of overarching approval, just sometimes case by case approval for individual locations if there were zoning issues or community concerns about noise or electricity usage or whatever. I think market does a lot of things where it's like do we need that? Theyre working on 6g cellular.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23h

The way it’s being done is totally unethical. So many communities are suffering actual consequences of nearby data centers with no compensation whatsoever. If you’re going to turn everyone’s water brown, you should also pay for everyone to get clean water for free. But the data center companies are not doing that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 15h

I seriously doubt that if we have nuclear power plants that aren’t doing that a new modern kind of data center suddenly is. I don’t buy the fud

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