'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What bugs me is that is really shouldn’t be legal for tech companies to just unilaterally decide that the local residents are going to subsidize their power costs.

  But we’re in America, where every single douchy thing a capitalist can do will absolutely be done, and both of our ruling parties will just shrug and keep collecting their bribes in the interim.

  Good on the people for waking up to this and fighting back.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “It’s time to build communities, not data centers,” said one local activist.

  A wonderful motto.

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• varjen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tangentially relevant: Benn Jordan posted a video about problems with Data Centers yesterday.

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• HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good job NJ. Glad to see my state will do the right thing sometimes.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sacramento (the state-side of it) is entertaining plans going in the opposite direction of New Jersey. A recent deal wants to let Meta in here on the promise: they’ll build some affordable housing, they’ll refurbish some old state buildings (for Meta use), and something for the local college. The reaction here is {bear looking sideways meme}.

  Bets on where the surprise ai data center will be?

  gov.ca.gov/…/governor-newsom-sacramento-state-and…

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  • hobovision@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why the fuck are they putting Sac State housing in the Capitol Mall area??? It’s like 3 miles from the school… The light rail is nearby, but still, the Sac State Station is a few blocks from the edge of a pretty large campus.

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    • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Theory. Meta will pre fill-up their housings with overseas students\programmers. Try and get them to play snd spend their money in downtown.

      High chance it flops. Rich kids live and go where they please. At he first sign of boredom, they’ll fiip, sublet, or AirB&B it just to not be in downtown.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But will they fund upgrades to the electrical system?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sacremento if they dont oppose this, they will se increased utility prices.

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    • VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine it… a SMUD+ subscription, pay extra to opt-out of more rolling blackouts.

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• Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh. One nice thing to hear, which is a rarity to me. Thank you for posting this :)

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• Henry@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stupid

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