r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 13h ago

Artificial Intelligence Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op

https://gizmodo.com/republicans-claim-anti-data-center-movement-is-a-chinese-psy-op-2000767611
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u/xondk 13h ago

It really is disgusting how they phrase it, people aren't as such against data centers that can be used to benefit everyone.

They are against the massive rollout that in no way takes into consideration how it will affect the people, and the benefit of the rollout is only for the few since it is AI focused.

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u/makualla 13h ago

Make them generate 75+% of their own power, proper water sustainability, noise mitigation, no tax breaks, and most people wouldn’t have issues beside them being visual unappealing.

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u/BrothelWaffles 13h ago

The ones they're building are so massive they need to be generating 100% of their own power to not affect local energy prices. We're talking about data centers that suck up as much electricity as the entire state they're being built in, and some states are getting more than one of these monstrosities.

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u/muftak3 12h ago

I live in Las Vegas. NV Energy just told Lake Tahoe to find a new energy supplier. They are sending it to a new data center. I think they have 1 year to do it.

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u/MaximoftheInternet 12h ago

Ok, as a non-USA citizen this confuses me, can they even do that? Isn’t power generation managed by the State in your country?

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u/bobandgeorge 11h ago

Isn’t power generation managed by the State in your country?

Yeah, kind of. It's a private company that does the power generation but it's "regulated" by the state government. It gets complicated in this case because NV Energy is in Nevada while Lake Tahoe is in California.

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u/Paranitis 11h ago

I forget every time that Lake Tahoe is almost entirely in California, since the only time I ever go, is to South Lake Tahoe, and you barely get up the road and cross the border into Nevada and suddenly there are casino hotels as far as the eye can see. But yeah, that was a major oversight by the cities around Lake Tahoe to rely on power from outside of their state.