Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 4 days agoYes. They can build their own sources of power of their own choosing. Or put more resources into doing data centers more efficiently, their choice.
123@programming.dev 1 day ago
If you leave it up to them, they’ll start burning that toxic cheap marine diesel to power the generators. Its not like its hard to get some states to give you exceptions for pollution with some key donations.
Noise pollution around data centers is very bad already based on some news reports, they’ll push the limits to save a dollar.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, gotta make the environmental factors financially important to them while they’re deciding what to do, which is unfortunately a very hard thing to do