Jersey bay bee fuck yeah
What bugs me is that is really shouldn’t be legal for tech companies to just unilaterally decide that the local residents are going to subsidize their power costs.
But we’re in America, where every single douchy thing a capitalist can do will absolutely be done, and both of our ruling parties will just shrug and keep collecting their bribes in the interim.
Good on the people for waking up to this and fighting back.
Tangentially relevant: Benn Jordan posted a video about problems with data centers yesterday.
Good job NJ. Glad to see my state will do the right thing sometimes.
Oh. One nice thing to hear, which is a rarity to me. Thank you for posting this :)
Sacramento (the state-side of it) is entertaining plans going in the opposite direction of New Jersey. A recent deal wants to let Meta in here on the promise: they’ll build some affordable housing, they’ll refurbish some old state buildings (for Meta use), and something for the local college. The reaction here is {bear looking sideways meme}.
Bets on where the surprise ai data center will be?
But will they fund upgrades to the electrical system?
Zuck: Instead, let’s refire-up and overclock Rancho Seco.
Stupid
Not exactly. Princeton NJ and the surrounding areas are quite wealthy. The wealthy/elites have decided they don’t want their places polluted or to subsidize the costs of these data centers. It certainly wasn’t Newark and Camden that fought and won this.
