sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoIn first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenterswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1692arrow-down19
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minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 hours agoHamilton, ON, blocked a land severance designed to allow development of a datacenter yesterday. Among the lies from the developers: $3.8B in economic activity 23,000 new jobs. (hilarious) The centre would only be used for data storage…sure, which is why it was planning to use 10mW of power and suck cooling water from Lake Ontario. But the big question is whether Doug Ford will waddle in and let them build anyway.
minus-squareTheHonourablePierrePoilievre@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoHamilton with a population of 570 000. So the data center would employ about 4%. Sure.
minus-squarezebidiah@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoHoly shit! That’s amazing! Great job Hamilton!
Hamilton, ON, blocked a land severance designed to allow development of a datacenter yesterday.
Among the lies from the developers:
$3.8B in economic activity
23,000 new jobs. (hilarious)
The centre would only be used for data storage…sure, which is why it was planning to use 10mW of power and suck cooling water from Lake Ontario.
But the big question is whether Doug Ford will waddle in and let them build anyway.
Hamilton with a population of 570 000. So the data center would employ about 4%. Sure.
Holy shit! That’s amazing! Great job Hamilton!