'America hates data centers,' new database reveals more than 90% of 10,000 public comments are negative, only 21% mention AI — 73% of meetings had no data center supporters, water is the number one concern
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A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments across more than 410 local governments, and it's bad news for data center builders.
  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah, regular data centres have existed for a while and don’t come with a fraction of the drawbacks that come with AI data centres

    Amazon and Google’s cloud businesses are probably loving this because it soft locks out any new future competitor to that business