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.
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1 monthWe 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.
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.
So it’s official now. AI comes before schools, and before children. Welp. So much for thinking about the children.
- chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish29 days
Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish29 days
I know Europe is scant on AC in general, but you guys really don’t even use it in schools? That seems wild to me.
- 29 days
We prefer to stick our fingers in our ears, pretend climate change isn’t getting worse and torture our kids and teachers instead. At least after the recent heatwave some conversations are starting to happen.
- knomie@feddit.orgEnglish30 days
We need
Anonymousto do something about data centers.Don’t wait for others to save us.
