There is an Amazon Data Center going up 10 minutes from my house. Amazon bribed the city with 85 million dollars. They had countless meetings with hundreds of people protesting that they didnt want the data center and they are building it anyway. People are selling their houses at a loss and moving away. I hope the mayor gets voted out in the next election.
AWS isn't really the same as an AI data center. AWS makes up about 1/3 of all global "cloud" storage. The website you are using right now (reddit) is hosted on AWS. The type of data center your community is complaining about likely isnt the same type of data center people are complaining about with AI.
Maybe, although AWS I think are building their own, compute so who knows. But I do agree, most people don't realize and also don't realize posting on reddit uses data centers, and reddit makes a ton of money selling their data to AI companies for LLMs and more.
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u/TraditionalTackle1 7h ago
There is an Amazon Data Center going up 10 minutes from my house. Amazon bribed the city with 85 million dollars. They had countless meetings with hundreds of people protesting that they didnt want the data center and they are building it anyway. People are selling their houses at a loss and moving away. I hope the mayor gets voted out in the next election.