Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents pay the price

Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by arjie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:52PM (#50474093)

Datacenters are this generation’s nuclear power plants. Our kids will look back and wonder what we were thinking.

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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by vatsachak on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:59PM (#50474193)

False analogy. Data centers are consumers not producers. They compete with humans for infrastructure capacity. Companies need to foot the bill for improving infrastructure not humans

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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by Marha01 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:45PM (#50474763)

> Datacenters are this generation’s nuclear power plants.

In that case, the accurate analogy would be: Our kids will look back and wonder why we haven't built many more of them.

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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by InsidiousWombat on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:14PM (#50476378)

I swear the kind of mental gymnastics AI fanatics go thru needs to be studied.

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