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precision1kyesterday at 6:43 PM4 repliesview on HN

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RankingMemberyesterday at 7:46 PM

Not all of your neighbors seem to agree

https://wjla.com/news/local/data-center-noise-fumes-create-f...

Material wealth is only part of the picture. I'd rather have a Honda Civic and a quiet, clean place to live than own a Ferrari and have to pick and choose when I can go outside so I avoid the noise and particulate pollution from a nearby data center.

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georgemcbayyesterday at 6:47 PM

The pre-AI datacenters where you live are very different than the Colossus-style methane turbine and inadequately soundproofed AI datacenters that are being built today.

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datsci_est_2015yesterday at 6:47 PM

> Your idea that datacenters are racists transitively is woke slop.

Your knee jerk reaction to refer to something as “woke slop” belies your privileged distance from anything remotely resembling hardship (I LiVe iN LoUdOuN) and an underdeveloped sense of empathy.

Anyway, we should be extremely skeptical of how infrastructure is built out in the US because of historical baggage. Poverty and industrial development create a vicious cycle that leads people to walk around with their thumb in their ass and claim that the poors just aren’t pulling themselves up by their bootstraps hard enough.

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