sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIn first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenterswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square82linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHamilton, ON, blocked a land severance designed to allow development of a datacenter yesterday. Among the lies from the developers: $3.8B in economic activity 23,000 new jobs. (hilarious) The centre would only be used for data storage…sure, which is why it was planning to use 10mW of power and suck cooling water from Lake Ontario. But the big question is whether Doug Ford will waddle in and let them build anyway.
minus-squareTheHonourablePierrePoilievre@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHamilton with a population of 570 000. So the data center would employ about 4%. Sure.
minus-squarezebidiah@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHoly shit! That’s amazing! Great job Hamilton!
minus-squarewifemademesignup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoJust to be a pedant, I know you meant MW not mW. I’m happy for them to waste 10mW but paper straws vs 10MW of bs… well I think we know what we prefer.
Hamilton, ON, blocked a land severance designed to allow development of a datacenter yesterday.
Among the lies from the developers:
$3.8B in economic activity
23,000 new jobs. (hilarious)
The centre would only be used for data storage…sure, which is why it was planning to use 10mW of power and suck cooling water from Lake Ontario.
But the big question is whether Doug Ford will waddle in and let them build anyway.
Hamilton with a population of 570 000. So the data center would employ about 4%. Sure.
Holy shit! That’s amazing! Great job Hamilton!
Just to be a pedant, I know you meant MW not mW.
I’m happy for them to waste 10mW but paper straws vs 10MW of bs… well I think we know what we prefer.