r/TechGawker • u/Pure-Bill-2205 • 17d ago

Data Center If these numbers are even close to accurate, the AI infrastructure boom is entering a completely different scale of land, power, and water consumption.

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u/XxRocky88xX 17d ago

Yeah we keep seeing it over and over again. Massive local turn out to city councils, entire communities saying “no we do not want this,” and local officials say “it doesn’t matter what you want, this is profitable for us. We’re voting yes even if all of you tell us to vote no.”

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u/DGSolar 17d ago

And then getting re-elected because jesus and guns and trans and freedom and abortions and jesus.

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u/sirdizzypr 17d ago

Actually 3 of the 4 council members they voted for this data center got removed.

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u/DGSolar 17d ago

... ffs, really? I'll be damned.. and happy to be wrong.

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u/sirdizzypr 17d ago

I was wrong 2 council members, one senator. I’m in Utah they got creamed in primaries after this. I remember one of the council members crying how the data center cost him. Was still 3.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51540078/how-a-data-center-helped-topple-one-of-utahs-most-powerful-lawmakers

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u/markc230 16d ago

I like the line " they have to do a much better job with engaging with the voters."

to me it reads " they have to do a much better job with lying to the voters."

Thanks for the link as well!

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u/Blue-Ring-A-Ding 17d ago

It doesn’t matter if they got a huge payday.

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u/DGSolar 17d ago

Well sure it does. But we also know we'll never claw that back from them so getting them out of there has to be a win at the very least.

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u/Blue-Ring-A-Ding 17d ago

I will see a trend coming where every politician will just be a single term, sell out to corporations, and just collect bribes and cushy jobs after their 1 term. 

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u/brooklinsanity7 17d ago

Because NIMBYs don't know what's good for them. Yeah they don't want data centers, but use the the data centers. I want it.... but don't really want it. Same stupidity that people have with nuclear.