Comment on 'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center
1984@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
This is going to be a huge thing going forward. They are investing hundreds of billions into Ai the coming year and part of that is building many huge data centers that will drive energy prices and water prices up almost certainly.
This is what bugs me about capitalism, they don’t keep to their corner, they basically stand back and look for the most opportunistic land and steal it from people that want nothing to do with capitalism.
I wish we could encapsulate all that in one region so it would become obvious it doesn’t make things better.
Funny thing is we used to use New Jersey for that.
Due to past industrial activity, New Jersey has more Superfund toxic waste sites than any other state in the union despite its small geographic size. By 2024, only 35 of New Jersey’s Superfund sites (out of about 150 that have been on the EPA’s list since the Superfund law was passed in 1980) have been cleaned up.[247]
In late 2023, a concern became public about PFAs (so-called “forever chemicals”) existing in the state’s water supplies.[248]
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 minutes ago
Energy prices in SoCal have literally doubled in the last year. It’s fucking insane how bad this utility is becoming. I can’t even imagine how much worse it can get with more data centers.