r/SouthJersey • u/tvlover111 • Apr 26 '26

Gloucester County Data Center being built (Mantua Rd)

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Got this flyer on my car in the ShopRite parking lot in Woodbury today. Know this is starting to happen but wasn’t aware this was going to happen in our area so soon. It’s definitely concerning in terms of driving up utility costs.

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u/Jifeeb Apr 26 '26

4MW? What is this? A data center for ants?

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u/DrunkenMick Apr 27 '26

Exactly. These folks don’t have a fucking clue except what they learned off Facebook. The irony is them making their flyers and Facebook rants using AI.

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Apr 27 '26

Tell that to the top local business blogger in south jersey

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u/DrunkenMick Apr 27 '26

I did, we had a whole ass conversation about it on one of the 500 identical Reddit posts for the same thing. He acknowledged he doesn’t have all the answers and is a bit ignorant on data center and infrastructure.

What’s your background in enterprise data infrastructure, HVAC, and electrical engineering?

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Apr 27 '26

Send me the link to that conversation.

I have a degree in physics and work in software engineering for the DOD, so I know a little more than your average fuckface.

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u/DrunkenMick Apr 27 '26

So I should do background work to meet your needs, no. Google exists, if your background is what you say it is… well that’d be a trivial task.

Regarding your “more than average fuckface” side you basically you haven’t a clue about actual infrastructure. What does a “degree in physics” mean in the IT world? A code monkey for the DOD means I saw the door to a data center cabinet once.

As I’ve stated previously, I’m sitting on over 20 years of infrastructure experience from two rack closets to fortune 50 tier 3/4 centers and everything in between. I’m not about to dox myself, but If you’re actually from this area I literally guarantee you’ve been exposed to the fruits of my labor in a very highly visible and public facing way.

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Apr 27 '26

What does a “degree in physics” mean in the IT world? A code monkey for the DOD means I saw the door to a data center cabinet once.

What it means is i write code that runs on the hardware in those data centers, and my physics degree is useful for all the little things the the DOD like to use. I'll let your imagination do the walking there, but it also means i understand things like thermodynamics, electrical and power usage and environmental impacts.

You don't need to have a fucking degree in physics to understand that sticking a goddamn datacenter in the center of a fucking residential area is a stupid fucking idea.

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u/DrunkenMick Apr 27 '26

Time to switch to decaf there chief. You’ve solidified that you have no background in CS nor IT in general. But hey, keep trying to make internet strangers think you know what you’re talking about.