100%. At that point the data center is just stealing from everyone else.
Every one is just subsidizing the data center with their electrical, water, etc… Bill.
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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
If the main effect of allowing them nearby is your electric bill going up it seems reasonable to not want them.
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
They also use up huge amounts of drinking water.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
And they’re crazy loud. Some days, it’s a constany 100+ decibels of sound around nearby homes due to the cooling systems.
BanMe@lemmy.world 6 days ago
More important than that, the power plants that run them are often heavily polluting, and tend to be in low-income, predominately black neighborhoods. So AI is giving poor kids cancer.