In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

4 months ago by sanitation to c/technology

While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban
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SpaceNoodle 90 points 4 months ago

Great, now do the whole state.

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hansolo -25 points 4 months ago

So the 280-300 in the state currently that do nice things like let the internet happen, let 911 calls go through, allow universities do research on diseases, hold cancer patient records, and show California residents Lemmy should....what? Go away?

An absolutist view of anything is typically a terrible idea. You don't even know which very specific class of large data center you are "against."

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douglasg14b 5 points 4 months ago

It's a classic knee jerk from commenters who don't know what they are talking about.

A tale as old as time.

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hansolo -19 points 4 months ago

Hate for hate's sake.

Certainly a lovely way to live life. /s

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CosmoNova 20 points 4 months ago

Everyone hates AI. Takes an AI company CEO to not notice.

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hansolo -9 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: data centers existed and were incredibly important pieces of digital infrastructure long before LLMs were publicly available. You don't even know what a data center does apparently.

Nor do you realize that my comment isn't about the virtues of data centers or what happens in them, but rather, having a massively under-informed opinion based largely on emotions. Hate for the sake of hate. That's what MAGA people do. You're really doing to double down and tell me that "oh, well, not me, I'm not like that" with a straight face?

Downvote all you like, it doesn't make your heart kind, or your mind work better.

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bold_atlas 8 points 4 months ago

We actually have very good reasons to be telling society destroying tech speculators to take their "but muh inovashions" "diruptions bro" and fuck off and die in a slit trench.

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hansolo -5 points 4 months ago

But you do realize that un-innovative, plain old data centers not for bots and AI are a thing, right?

You literally can't throw your opinion at me without them.

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TiredDinoByte 2 points 4 months ago

Very ironic you are saying that on a federated social media platform with no data centers.

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hansolo 2 points 4 months ago

I think you meant to say that to the absolute anti-data center person, not me. I'm trying to explain that not all data centers are for LLMs and therefore killing the planet at hyperspeed.

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vaionko 2 points 4 months ago

Where do you think Lemmy instances are hosted? I know for a fact mine is hosted in a Hetzner center. Not in the corner of someone's living room, on an old computer.

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