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I always forget Erin Brockovich is a real person and not just a character played by Julia Roberts
If they make a sequel movie based on her current activities, who will they cast to play Julia Roberts in the in-universe version of the film based on the first movie?
Julia Roberts played fake Julia Roberts in one of the Oceans movies, so she's qualified.
Chris Pratt.
The site explicitly mentions "AI data centers", but how do you differentiate AI data centers from... non-AI data centers I guess?
I understand the anti-AI sentiment and environmental issues, etc. but I also think a lot of non-technical people don't realise that literally everything they do online uses a data center.
Assuming the specs and blueprints are publicly available, an AI data center will look different on the inside compared to a traditional data center. The former will have more GPU racks and probably higher power requirements.
This, but it may also be apparent even without detailed information. The key difference is an absurd level of power density. So compare footprint to power. Power can be estimated easiest based on backup generators as their smokestacks are almost always visible. The last variable is whatever generator size from CAT, Cummins etc is the most cost effective, or that was still somehow left in a warehouse to actually buy.
Also if they're running the "backup" generators even when the power grid isn't having any issues...
AI datacenters outscale every other kind of data center by an extremely large margin. Most data centers are smaller than a Costco.
Most new builds by the larger companies are pretty big though, even if they're not dedicated to AI.
It also says the goal isn't to track every data center out of the 4000 operating in the US, just the ones the public is concerned about, yet there are over 8000 user submissions shown.
This erodes my confidence in the data, as there appear to be no checks or filters.
There's some dots on the map in places where I know for sure that there's no data center. I think people have submitted addresses of some tech company headquarters for example.
You can have servers at home or in the office, no need for datacenters for everything.
To connect to those, you’re going through a Datacenter, or your not online.
Unless you use cloudflare, no you don't.
Your ISP likely has multiple datacenters. And even if they don’t, their provider almost certainly does. Your DNS ultimately comes from a datacenter. Your machines clock is likely syncing with a NIST that is, once again, hosted in a datacenter.
A datacenter isn’t some magical thing that only a few companies have, if you’re dealing with a large anything that hosts its own or others data, they more than likely have a datacenter.
Not all those companies have their own data centers, but plenty of them would rent space in data centers. You can rent anything from servers owned by the data center ("dedicated servers", like what you can get from Hetzner), to space in a shared rack, to an entire 42U rack dedicated to you, to an entire cage (or several cages).
(a cage is just a part of the data center that's sectioned off in a locked metal mesh cage so only one customer can access it, while still allowing plenty of airflow to and from the servers)
The post is about data centers though.
No serious business is hosting an internet accessible serve in their office.
You would be suprised.
You know, Elon Musk was dumping the same shit the movie was about in Texas recently!? Soon Teflon somewhere else like Dupont again
Sounds like a good movie. You got the name?
Edit - Nevermind, I looked up Erin Brockovich and found her movie.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2026
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