In the USA, "the AI boom is fueling a frenzy of data centers that are competing with residential homes for capital, power, water, and even sonic space. The result is a housing market stuck in neutral, with the potential for higher bills on the horizon, and neighborhoods kept awake by the hum of chillers designed to keep machines-not people-cool."
sfgate.com/realestate/article/…
There are so many hidden costs to AI.
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in reply to Babs E. Blue #IStandW/Ukraine • • •The problem is national in one sense. The thread from a few weeks ago was started by individuals who live in small towns in different parts of the US. They were mentioning that fly by night companies things that were put together just recently we're making bids to construct data centers.
My guess is that this was shell corporation that existed expressly to get the rights which would subsequently be sold to another company like Amazon.
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Probably the most effective thing you can do is get several friends together to pepper York city Council and if you have a local paper or group chat or something and start talking about this on a regular basis.
Tell your city council that that you don't want your utility bills to double your water, air and acoustic environment, polluted, and property values to be destroyed.
Emphasize the last bit because cities are exquisitely sensitive to tax revenue
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in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •We all know about it
People outside of the affected places just don't seem to give a shit enough of the time :/
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in reply to Noodlemaz • • •@noodlemaz I'd very much call it hidden as it is NOT knowledge in the public discourse (at least IMO)
I for one assumed most datacenters would be built far off-urban zoning.
(TBS I'm definitely not positively biased towards them either)
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in reply to Gerry McGovern • • •When the droughts worsen, who will be prioritized?
(rhetorical; we already know)
Sincerely,
person watching wildfires appear in temperate rainforest.
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