• Xaphanos@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    My company does exactly these and more.

    Top-of-the line ultra-quiet low sulfur generators used only for utility outages.

    Closed-loop water cooling means the toilets use more water in a day than the cooling does in a year.

    Paying for the construction of the local infrastructure needed for twice our usage of electricity. We leave things better after we build.

    We do these every day. No one notices because bad news leads. There are certainly bad actors. And no one cares to think any further than that. Subtlety and nuance in understanding technology is dead.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      I feel like this is less a subtly and nuance thing and moreso a quite a few data centers particularly AI ones are built and maintained like shit. Frankly this is moreso a discussion of corporate malfeasance and lack of regulations on certain industries than a technology discussion, though obviously a lot of it is wrapped up in the AI shit because it’s the current fuckfest of a nothing tech that’s causing problems but I do remember similar issues building up during the crypto shit it’s just now with AI.