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arjie • yesterday at 8:52 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Datacenters are this generation’s nuclear power plants. Our kids will look back and wonder what we were thinking.


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Marha01 • yesterday at 9:45 PM

> Datacenters are this generation’s nuclear power plants.

In that case, the accurate analogy would be: Our kids will look back and wonder why we haven't built many more of them.

vatsachak • yesterday at 8:59 PM

False analogy. Data centers are consumers not producers. They compete with humans for infrastructure capacity. Companies need to foot the bill for improving infrastructure not humans