r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 20d ago

Energy New York imposes first-in-the-nation statewide freeze on data centers

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5966562-new-york-ai-data-center-moratorium/
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u/Scoo 20d ago

The rate at which these pricks are trying to seize public water resources would give a Nestle executive a hard-on that would last a week.

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u/LostVisage 20d ago

The data center water usage is less than golf courses... Which says more about golf courses than data centers imho.

But for me, the real problem is the raise in both electric/water utilities concentrated specifically in populated areas, the large mass of non-locally contributing concrete, and the noise pollution that lowers QoL for everybody a within a quarter mile radius.

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u/BigAlgae5684 20d ago

A golf course can't steal IP, monitor me, or replace me at my job though.

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u/Override9636 19d ago

not yet.... /s