My city council was fine with the data center. Then the citizens brought a guillotine to the proceedings, and they had second thoughts.

I love the text but what is this image

somebody putting up a greenhouse. which doesn't really fit the text at all.

I'll make sure to leave plenty of illegal pollution in my surroundings, and to emanate sub-audible frequencies harmful to human health for a multiple mile radius.

Precariously balancing a terrible mobius strip of circular financing that itself props up the majority of the US stock market might be a little tough though. Anyone have any tips?

At least something made them reconsider. Land zoned for housing development near where I live just got abandoned after multiple years owned by some shitheads who were suing the local government for not allowing them to turn it into a ground shipping hub in the middle of miles of residential land (broken up with the occasional school and strip mall type businesses), only for the land to be picked up by a group trying to build a data center claiming it would bring significant jobs to the area.

I've been to a few data centers for work. Job hubs they ain't.

treat your body like a datacenter that has been planned poorly and pushed through local government

Fixed it for ya.

Remember, kids, if you like your health data to be safely stored so when you have a car accident you can survive with a drug allergy (long enough to get the bill, if American), then you want that data stored where it's safe. That's a datacenter. If you like the idea of criminals getting their just desserts one day, you want the evidence stored safely where fire/flood/tornado/theft/vandalism can't destroy it and deny us justice. That's a datacenter (and maybe a salt mine in nevada, but you get it).

If you hate evaporative cooling and diesel power generation, you hate bad datacenters, and you need to rail against councils approving bad plans and/or you need to ensure the new council you elect will slap the ratfuckers with legal challenge after enviro violation until they can do little else but sell it off to someone else (ohai code compliance on sold structures).

Sub Audible makes it sound like the people who claim wind turbines are giving them migraines.

Many datacenters are just audible. 50 tractor trailer sized gas generators are plenty audible from a good distance.

Molotov cocktails really dry out my skin tho :/

Infrasound. Inaudible but affect your health. Benn jordan made video on this. There are some early study about health effect.

/emits infrasound, making everyone uneasy.

Annoy the heck of people on lemmy!

Hydrate. Educate. Frustrate.

Well I can educate about as well as AI. Regurgitating info I found on a vaguely related Reddit thread as well as include incorrect info on something completely unrelated.

And don’t forget to hallucinate often

Yeah, far_university got it. Infrasound is what I was referring to specifically, and your comment has me wondering now if there's been any attempts to measure for it around wind turbines too.

The known negative health effects from the noise pollution around data centers are bad enough, but there's evidence of further effects than that due to the infrasound as well, which isn't immediately obvious as it's not within human hearing range

It doesn't necessarily have to be a datacenter. They're just convenient for big companies spending huge amounts of money.

All a datacenter is is rows buildings filled with rows filled with racks filled with computers. Those computers could be distributed around the world in smaller buildings, or even sharing space with existing buildings that do other things. It's not the fact that the data is stored in buildings filled with rows filled with racks that makes the data safely stored. In fact, that single location means that the data is more vulnerable than if it was stored in a more distributed way.

Having said that, keeping a lot of computers in a single building often does make it cheaper to run them because of easier maintenance and economies of scale. That means the data can be stored more cheaply, and it can be accessed more quickly.

But yeah, some datacenters is probably fine. I don't think people were complaining much about Google's various datacenters before they went wild on their AI push, and they had dozens of DCs spread around the world. What's bad is that the current push is for many, many more DCs being built way too quickly in places that aren't appropriate (because they can't get enough power for example), for a purpose that people aren't behind.

Grow so big that a local town council has meetings where they argue about your size, and how much pollution you cause.

Or is that yo mamma?