Concerns about noise pollution and increased electricity costs are just morons?

What about concerns about air pollution from unregulated diesel generators? Or using large amounts of water in drought prone areas?

All of those can be addressed by proper regulation. Banning them outright is the equivalent of banning all immigration just because there's some particular subgroup that people hate.

> All of those can be addressed by proper regulation.

No it can't. Regulation is already being flouted.

> Banning them outright is the equivalent of banning all immigration

Please be less obvious, this is just insulting.

>No it can't. Regulation is already being flouted.

So regulations to ban datacenters work, but for some reason regulations to ban gas turbines or whatever doesn't work?

>Please be less obvious, this is just insulting.

Please be less obvious. You failing to rebut my argument and resorting to calling it "just insulting" is insulting.

> So regulations to ban datacenters work

Yes, as we see here.

> regulations to ban gas turbines or whatever doesn't work?

Yes, as we've seen elsewhere.

Anything else you're not clear on?

so what you're saying is that the problems people have with new data centers are real and well-documented?

> Data centres are hardly new

A commenter below quotes a 73% annual growth rate vs. 23% over the prior decade.

You don't think that'd have an effect on people's perception?

Perception, absolutely yes.

And physical, objective reality, too.

It’s all just feelings, based on observations affected by hundreds of variables entirely unrelated to one particular type of industrial construction.

Start paying closer attention to the news and make note of when facts are cherry picked to suit sentiment… and then ask yourself where the origin of the sentiment is.

Damn their lying eyes!

Care to expand?

Others already have elsewhere in this discussion.

I oppose AI data centers the way they are being rolled out (which is not the same as I'm against data centers as a concept). Just like I'm anti "AI as it is being pushed", not against AI as a technology.

I'm not a moron. I do know what I'm talking about most of the time.

>99% of the time

99% is an interesting figure because that's roughly how much my energy bill has increased despite no significant change in my usage due to data center demand on the grid

Buddy I work in world class premier data centers and I don’t want more of ‘em either. I appreciate that you think I’m a moron though for wanting to protect my community from douchebags like yourself. But respectfully I reject your bullshit.

They can't engage with your ideas, so they try to label you as the kind of person whose ideas aren't worth engaging with. It doesn't matter to them what you said, it must be wrong because you said it. Unless, of course, you agree with them, in which case you suddenly become worth taking seriously again.

Ain’t that the truth!