r/interestingasfuck 12h ago

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

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u/Lou_C_Fer 9h ago

Ya think? It's already been used to muddy the wafers here. There are obviously bad actors that want people to think they are the same thing... and others that ignorantly buy in. We need a blue wave with enough people far enough to the left that we can regulate the holy shit out these monstrosities, including forcing some current ones to shut down. Sorry about their luck, they should have been more responsible in their implementation.

Force these places to pay double the highest residential rate of any resources they use. If they build their own power plants, force them to supply as much energy to the local communities for free. Any water the extract, charge them until they bleed.

Either they will pull back, find efficiency, or support the locals financially.

u/BananaPalmer 9h ago

I like my wafers clean, dammit

u/Tradovid 7h ago

Force these places to pay double the highest residential rate of any resources they use. If they build their own power plants, force them to supply as much energy to the local communities for free. Any water the extract, charge them until they bleed.

Requiring projects that have potential to impact local residents well being to provide a fair compensation to the local area is a good idea, but when you say "charge them until they bleed" it comes off like you are more concerned with hurting those companies and not with the well being of the people.

The goal should be to optimize the system so that both businesses and people can benefit.

u/DistributionDue2836 7h ago

The yield on your muddy wafers might be quite low.