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.
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.
I’ll be so sad when the CEOs get Luigi’d.
People will be sacked for turning up to work smelling of sweat. Such fun times.
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.
Wasn’t this already the case like 2 years ago in Texas? Except I remember the governor telling people to drink less water and shower together when possible to save water for the data centers.
Please sir…can I have some more…electricity
said the poor school to the billionaires
Killdozer needs to come back…
Improve the cooling system first. We are talking about Marvin, right?
If you Google the model number their AI will sometimes list the 20 tons of armor as an option like you could just order it that way.
Are they keeping profits from data centres away from schools?
Educating the kids would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The only training they need is how to mow the grass around the data centres.
I actually saw a robotic mower doing that job just a few months ago. I think it was around a school.
Well then we just let them starve and blame them for being homeless.
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
The other ways cost money, make noise, and consume more power.
You mean cost more money. It’s not like water is free but it is very cheap to use. But those other ways to cool it cost quite a bit more electricity and aren’t nearly as efficient.
That’s what I meant, sorry, english is not my native language, but yes, water is the cheapest of all solutions
That’s typically how the government operates as well. No incentive to use funding wisely and decrease spending
Don’t need school if you have chat gpt /s
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 on their private islands
And when it comes to starting moral panics to strip away rights.
The perception that children matter only exists in election cycles.
They never really matter.
and before they’re born.
The children only matter when they can’t speak for themselves.
That way they can’t disagree. It’s why they put so much emphasis on the unborn. Once they can speak their own opinion, they’re worthless.
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Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
Because actual intelligence doesn’t vote conservative.
Here comes Abbot’s elementary comedy series, where they build a big stadium, but they can’t afford to fix the lights in the school.
Get your passport while you still can
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
Are they in cahoots with the PACs that support pro AI candidates? (Are they the same groups? I really don’t know.)
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.
We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.
Well, we are working on it, cuz.
Remember, data centers need internet to function. Usually.
I prefer calling them clanker lairs
Wretched hives of scum and villAIny
Well… duh. Data center makes dollar, schools costs dollar
An interesting one there, how can schools consumption be compared to that of Data centers
Maybe they just want people to waste time pointing spiderman fingers at eachother for not turning off their computers.
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.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent steve?”
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.
No. Next fucking question. I’d rather data centers have brown-outs than schools.
County with 37 datacenters can go fuck itself with a cactus.
here come the brownouts motherfuckers…
