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[-] weps@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I've been working in data centers since 2008.

What happened? What changed? They used to be incredible.

I haven't been in a data center in a couple of years.

[-] platypode@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

Companies are exploiting regulatory loopholes as they construct new facilities powered by pollutant-spewing onsite gas plants.

The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.

[-] Majoran@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Does that effectively also mean that the real energy consumption might not be measured accurately?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

They got bigger and got owned by more evil companies.

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Do it and pay the fines later. If that nets a profit than the system needs to be changed.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Evaporation cooling is cheaper

[-] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

What changed is that they're now GPU and RAID farms for enslaving humanity. Remember what the NSA did? It's x100 worse.

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