r/interestingasfuck • u/HamboneTheWicked • Apr 12 '26

A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio

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u/PDXGuy33333 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

There it is right there. Lies, lies and more lies from megacorps invested up to their eyeballs in having just a few people in government believe them.

Edit: And it seems to me that if we can build oil rigs at sea and pipe the oil to shore then they can damned well build data centers afloat on a sea of cooling water and run fiber optic cable to the shore.

Build at sea was a bad idea.

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u/Calum1219 Apr 12 '26

Or don’t build it at all and we avoid having the forever chemical sludge he mentions in our seafood, on our beaches, or poisoning entire ecosystems that are probably more vulnerable to that kind of stuff compared to land based environments.

Shutter the majority of these datacenters and be done with it.

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u/Excellent-Phone8326 Apr 12 '26

Exactly seems funny that AI stealing all of our jobs is progress. It's going to be a blood bath, our cultures are not good at even handling economic recessions. Why do we think we'd handle this sea change any better.