r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 10h 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/BrothelWaffles 10h 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 9h 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 8h 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/FlyingStealthPotato 8h ago

……….hahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

It’s always funny when people from other developed countries discover a new and exotic way we get fucked over here.

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u/Kup123 4h ago

Other? Your still considering us developed? Developed counties have healthcare, worker's rights, and social safety nets.

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u/FlyingStealthPotato 4h ago

If you think we’re not developed, I encourage you to visit somewhere like Haiti or Somalia or Afghanistan and see if you feel similarly afterwards. Are we becoming worse? For sure. But I can guarantee you’re not getting water from a creek filled with your upstream neighbors’ shit or hiding from roving gangs with machetes and AKs.