This is cartoonishly ridiculous
What a inefficient use of land, let alone what’s being built on it.
Honestly I would probably prefer data centers built in old open pit mines before the mine gets filled back in.
Or maybe build them in Alaska for example where it’s cold, or space like a halo?
before the mine gets filled back in.
That has to be prevented from happening, and those mines have pumps in them. Otherwise land around gets poisoned (and also eroded).
So putting useful objects inside those mines at least makes them not just passive expense.
If someone wants to know what if you just don’t pump the water out of an unused mine, leaving it be, then they can read what happens in Donbass now that nobody takes care of those many depleted mines there, due to war. It’s like Mordor basically.
It’s cheap to build on that land and labor is cheap and less legal fight against the company if some fuckup happens
Why does every site try to get me to install an app that is just their site in a browser?
Use Firefox focus and firewall level ad blocking. Takes care of 90% of this kind of bullshit.
One reason (of several): so that you can’t block ads
I’m assuming you are using a mobile browser. Switch it to desktop mode to put a stop to it.
Will it get finished this time? Place your bets!
My money is on the project getting cancelled before they finish.
Feel sorry people living near it.
I used to live down the street from a great big data center. It wasn’t a big deal. It’s basically just a building full of servers with extra AC units.
Inside? Loud AF (think: Jet engine. Wear hearing protection).
Outside: The hum of lots of industrial air conditioning units. Only marginally louder than a big office building.
A data center this big is going to have a lot more AC units than normal but they’ll be spread all around the building. It’s not like living next to an airport or busy train tracks (that’s like 100x worse).
I think its more that their power bills are going to go up 3x.
Yep. The situation of data centers being planned and constructed everywhere at the same time is entirely different from even 5 years ago. Things will get expensive. They‘re buying the hardware, resources and space that we all need and will sell them to us at an up price.
Yeah data centers they are building here give two fucks about noise canceling. They are as loud on the outside.
Not all datacenters bother with noise abaitment.
*Abatement
Depends. Normally yes (I’ve been in data centers like you’re talking about), but because it’s likely using GPUs for the LLM it’s probably considerably louder. Closer to this, which is a crypto mine: https://theweek.com/tech/the-noise-of-bitcoin-mining-is-driving-americans-crazy
It doesn’t look like it will even be a single building. For a site that size they’re going to need maintenance buildings and a power plant, grounds crews, security, climate services, offices, cafeteria, reception; probably put some R&D labs out there. It’s almost certainly not going to be one huge monolith, although it will certainly be mostly server buildings.
I was watching Some More News segment on it today. Those fuckers are loud.
No joke, some worker on another thread tried to gaslight people telling them it just air conditioning and not bad. I wanted to tell them to get fucked.
If someone made a giant datacenter on my private minecraft server, what would be the best way to sabotage it?
A pity it just allows comparing with us addresses
There are people living outside the USA?
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