Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
So it’s official now. AI comes before schools, and before children. Welp. So much for thinking about the children.
The children only matter in election cycles
and before they’re born.
The perception that children matter only exists in election cycles.
They never really matter.
And on their private islands
And when it comes to starting moral panics to strip away rights.
Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
We all see this coming, but the billionaires and our state/county/city leaders assure us everything will be fair and fine.
Same deal with water. It will be 100 degrees and data centers will be draining local water supplies, while residents will be told not to water their flowers or take too many showers.
Fuck all this.
I love that their solution is to not use the thing that the data centers are supposed to be for.
Oh don’t worry, people in Silicon Valley won’t feel the restrictions and will be running their OpenClaw-type chained agents all night long doing absolutely nothing of worth.
Here’s an archive link for the few who actually want to read the article.
In Virginia during the fifa World Cup there are a lot of pro data center ads funded by a group that was created for this purpose called Virginia Connects.
It’s the usual shitbags lying to the public to make it sound like data centers are good
In Virginia ads are still running about not leaving rural Virginians behind by banning data centers. Claiming that they will bring jobs to the rural community but those nasty politicians are banning the progress of data centers.
Are they in cahoots with the PACs that support pro AI candidates? (Are they the same groups? I really don’t know.)
California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.
Same play here.
California also has the stupidest water rights with “use it or lose” it clauses that counters any incentives to become more efficient. A couple families control a ridiculous amount of water rights.
The problem is that data centers don’t need water, they need cooling, and water is suitable for that because it’s the cheapest. They could do the cooling in many other ways, but it costs money
Don’t need school if you have chat gpt /s
I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO. I really hope this kind of stuff wakes people up enough to do something about it.
I least they got all that money and jobs (right? I’m pretty sure Facebook skirted that actually)
Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people
I guess they could light a data center on fire to keep warm and not run their heaters? Win/win?
(Also I hope it’s very obvious to everyone this is a joke, I’m not trying no to incite or encourage violence in any way at all).I’m just amazed at the grotesquely huge amounts of copper they have in those datacenters.
Clearly you were talking about doing this in Minecraft, so its okay.
I also hope that data centers “don’t” get burnt down. How "un"satisfying would that be. While I’m at it, I hope no one kills the trillionaire.
Please sir…can I have some more…electricity
said the poor school to the billionaires
We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.