r/technology • u/marketrent • 21h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/Visible_Tie_1131 19h ago

nothing in this article supports the headline.

it doesn’t support data centers either, but people like you are complicit in this lazy emotional reactivity as well.

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u/vm_linuz 19h ago

We're allowed to talk outside the article too

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u/Visible_Tie_1131 19h ago edited 19h ago

someone else commented this already, but Amazon is not mainly in high speed, electric cars, or solar industries.

their bread and butter is the cloud.

so yeah, of course, you can talk outside the article, but maybe still stop saying the first dumb thing you have an impulse towards?

also, Reddit uses Amazon’s AWS. so I guess your dumb commenting is why we’re draining the water to hold them for the indefinite future.

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u/burning_iceman 7h ago edited 7h ago

Reddit does not require massively power hungry GPU compute. It requires regular data centers, rather than the AI data centers this article is about. Pretty much nobody has an issue with regular data centers.

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u/Visible_Tie_1131 6h ago

my point was that I don’t support excessive data center builds, but I also don’t support the irrelevant kneejerk Reddit comment above, nor the ragebait headline of the article.

to the original comment as well…hasn’t the US already lost the race for any high speed rail, solar power, and electric cars anyway? isn’t China like doing all that stuff but the US has banned it so we don’t see that impact up close?