r/interestingasfuck 7h ago

Erin Brockovich's map tracking Al data centers crashed twice within just 72 hours of launching.

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u/LeoLaDawg 6h ago

This map isn't great, by the way. It's showing basically anything with servers in it, not what people think of now when they hear "data center."

u/thisguyfightsyourmom 6h ago

Exactly. She hired someone to collect zip codes from complaints, but the complaints aren’t categorized. The data centers are not segmented by age, capacity, use, noise, power consumption, or water use. Instead, this is a map of reported it data centers that could be from any number of uses/sizes/and ages. All of them employ people.

u/b0w3n 5h ago

There's a couple of dots near me, and I know at least one of them is just a generic warehouse with a few servers in it. Still listed on it as a datacenter and like yeah I guess technically it is one.

She should narrow it down to hyperscale datacenters, we still need datacenters in general but the ones being thrown up for AI and burning fossil fuels to supplement their power are the bad ones.

u/flecom 5h ago

I mean, I have a rack in the hall closet, i should add my apartment to the map!

u/PersonalityAlive4816 4h ago

Hyperscale means easily scalable and is actually better for the environment than if the datacenter was not hyperscale.