I could see a reasonable statewide zoning law but a statewide ban? You’ve got to be kidding. Tech is one of California’s biggest industries. We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?
So the 280-300 in the state currently that do nice things like let the internet happen, let 911 calls go through, allow universities do research on diseases, hold cancer patient records, and show California residents Lemmy should…what? Go away?
An absolutist view of anything is typically a terrible idea. You don’t even know which very specific class of large data center you are “against.”
Pretty sure the user is talking specifically about AI data centers. We could even be more precise and say LLM datacenters.
I haven’t read the article so I don’t know if the legislation makes a distinction. If not, it should. But a state-wide ban on LLM datacenters is a good idea. A nationwide ban on them would be a good idea, if it were politically feasible at this time.
Not only is it a bubble economy based on pure speculation, and doomed to collapse catastrophically at some point, as well as putting a pinch on critical supply chains such as for compute hardware, but California has areas that are facing water shortages and they certainly don’t need big tech building giant new data centers that will hog all this water for cooling while polluting what’s left.
Not to mention global warming and society’s outdated reliance on fossil fuels making these giant computers a terrible idea. Not only does it make electricity more expensive for residential consumers, while increasing the amount of fossil fuels being burned and the CO2 being put into the atmosphere, but the computer hardware alone creates so much heat that it has a measurable effect on the temperature of the area around it.
I could go on. There’s lots of reasons to be opposed to new LLM datacenters. And it seems kinda disingenuous to deflect by categorizing them with every other kind of datacenter. Those other kinds of datacenters aren’t the ones people are talking about.
Don’t feel bad - you just dared to bruise their favorite “AI BAD” narrative with practical facts. Sometimes this place really is just an echo chamber to shout idiotic wishes into the dark instead of a forum for actual discussion.
Fun fact: data centers existed and were incredibly important pieces of digital infrastructure long before LLMs were publicly available. You don’t even know what a data center does apparently.
Nor do you realize that my comment isn’t about the virtues of data centers or what happens in them, but rather, having a massively under-informed opinion based largely on emotions. Hate for the sake of hate. That’s what MAGA people do. You’re really doing to double down and tell me that “oh, well, not me, I’m not like that” with a straight face?
Downvote all you like, it doesn’t make your heart kind, or your mind work better.
Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don’t think we’d be seeing organized political action against them.
We actually have very good reasons to be telling society destroying tech speculators to take their “but muh inovashions” “diruptions bro” and fuck off and die in a slit trench.
Tell me how many data centers existed in the world in 2016. Then tell me how many ran LLMs. Then if you give me a pie chart of what those 2016 data centers were used for, I might mail you a cherry pie. (warning, it will get smashed and gross and spoil before it gets to you)
But so it sounds like you’re full on anti-technology and anti-internet. I would genuinely love to know how you arrived at that decision. My Mom is sort of the same way, so it’s intriguing to me how non-MAGA folks reach the same point.
Great, now do the whole state.
I could see a reasonable statewide zoning law but a statewide ban? You’ve got to be kidding. Tech is one of California’s biggest industries. We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?
As is tradition.
So the 280-300 in the state currently that do nice things like let the internet happen, let 911 calls go through, allow universities do research on diseases, hold cancer patient records, and show California residents Lemmy should…what? Go away?
An absolutist view of anything is typically a terrible idea. You don’t even know which very specific class of large data center you are “against.”
Pretty sure the user is talking specifically about AI data centers. We could even be more precise and say LLM datacenters.
I haven’t read the article so I don’t know if the legislation makes a distinction. If not, it should. But a state-wide ban on LLM datacenters is a good idea. A nationwide ban on them would be a good idea, if it were politically feasible at this time.
Not only is it a bubble economy based on pure speculation, and doomed to collapse catastrophically at some point, as well as putting a pinch on critical supply chains such as for compute hardware, but California has areas that are facing water shortages and they certainly don’t need big tech building giant new data centers that will hog all this water for cooling while polluting what’s left.
Not to mention global warming and society’s outdated reliance on fossil fuels making these giant computers a terrible idea. Not only does it make electricity more expensive for residential consumers, while increasing the amount of fossil fuels being burned and the CO2 being put into the atmosphere, but the computer hardware alone creates so much heat that it has a measurable effect on the temperature of the area around it.
I could go on. There’s lots of reasons to be opposed to new LLM datacenters. And it seems kinda disingenuous to deflect by categorizing them with every other kind of datacenter. Those other kinds of datacenters aren’t the ones people are talking about.
Don’t feel bad - you just dared to bruise their favorite “AI BAD” narrative with practical facts. Sometimes this place really is just an echo chamber to shout idiotic wishes into the dark instead of a forum for actual discussion.
Keeping them out of residential areas and limiting their impact on municipal utilities seems prudent.
Trying to evade regulations by hiding it in a subdivision isnt cool.
Well I then I guess tech bros should stop fucking around if they don’t want to find out what an enraged Luddite’s sabo taste like.
It’s a classic knee jerk from commenters who don’t know what they are talking about.
A tale as old as time.
Hate for hate’s sake.
Certainly a lovely way to live life. /s
Everyone hates AI. Takes an AI company CEO to not notice.
Fun fact: data centers existed and were incredibly important pieces of digital infrastructure long before LLMs were publicly available. You don’t even know what a data center does apparently.
Nor do you realize that my comment isn’t about the virtues of data centers or what happens in them, but rather, having a massively under-informed opinion based largely on emotions. Hate for the sake of hate. That’s what MAGA people do. You’re really doing to double down and tell me that “oh, well, not me, I’m not like that” with a straight face?
Downvote all you like, it doesn’t make your heart kind, or your mind work better.
Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don’t think we’d be seeing organized political action against them.
We actually have very good reasons to be telling society destroying tech speculators to take their “but muh inovashions” “diruptions bro” and fuck off and die in a slit trench.
But you do realize that un-innovative, plain old data centers not for bots and AI are a thing, right?
You literally can’t throw your opinion at me without them.
Very ironic you are saying that on a federated social media platform with no data centers.
Zip it, Hanloser.
lol, I see I struck a cord ;)
Tell me how many data centers existed in the world in 2016. Then tell me how many ran LLMs. Then if you give me a pie chart of what those 2016 data centers were used for, I might mail you a cherry pie. (warning, it will get smashed and gross and spoil before it gets to you)
“look how many plantations were actually cotton monoculture and get back to me before you have opinions about the Confederacy”
Yeah, that’s not the same.
But so it sounds like you’re full on anti-technology and anti-internet. I would genuinely love to know how you arrived at that decision. My Mom is sort of the same way, so it’s intriguing to me how non-MAGA folks reach the same point.
Choke on your own pie.