• nullspace@lemmy.world
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    8 minutes ago

    If only those dirty peasants didn’t buy up so much RAM for their personal computers. These poor, struggling data centers need more tax breaks so they can compete.

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    What sucks is there will be a day when we actually want more data centers - you know, in a responsible way that is respectful to the people - and we will still have a bad taste in our mouths and will not trust it.

    Thanks tech bro capitalists, you ruin everything you touch.

    • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Like windmills, solar panels, and everything else corpo lobbyists said were bad because they were leashed to their oil barron daddies.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      The amount of data center the average person needs can fit in a shoebox. Everyone can just run a little server in their closet or whatever. We don’t need gigantic warehouses.

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        Also, I want most of the services they want to move to the cloud to still work when the net is down.

        I may want to use a computer to watch my media library or play a game that I already own with out an active internet connection and ID card. Or, just use a word processor or tax program, or image editor.

        Sorry, please provide your ID to log in to the cloud to do basic daily tasks, citizens. This is for your own good, trust us.

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            14 minutes ago

            It’s been a heavy rainy season here, lots of wind, power and net issues.

            Meanwhile, the LAN works on a UPS, solar, and no Internet.

            (Sure is nice being able to put on a movie or music playlist, and work on documents, or sort though old vacationphotos when it’s a rainy day with out a cloud failure blocking it.)

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        3 hours ago

        Everyone can just run a little server in their closet or whatever.

        I’m not trusting the average person to not let it turn into a botnet.

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, regular data centres have existed for a while and don’t come with a fraction of the drawbacks that come with AI data centres

      Amazon and Google’s cloud businesses are probably loving this because it soft locks out any new future competitor to that business

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    2 hours ago

    They got greedy - bought everything, from memory, electrical equipment, to whole governments, in search of money, forever soiling an emerging new tech with the need for greed

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    3 hours ago

    … but they’ll build them anyway because the American regime could not give less of a fuck about the American people… and sadly, that’s exactly how Americans like it