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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by pkaye on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:36PM (#24702573)
Can't the government refuse to allow foreign datacenters?
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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by shajznnckfke on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:39PM (#24702610)
The government did ban the data from being stored in foreign datacenters - that’s why the local datacenters are being built.
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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by umeshunni on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:43PM (#24702647)
It's almost like poorly thought out government intervention has second order effects.
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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by shajznnckfke on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:58PM (#24703407)
IMO, when your quality of life gets high enough, your lizard brain will find the most obscure problems to freak out about. From trying to avoid being eaten by lions to caring which continent the computers with electrons representing us digitally resides physically. What an amazing species we are.
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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by smartbit on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:42PM (#24702632)
Local Dutch municipalities are fighting for large datacenter. They promise them green energy
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