Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
Here’s an archive link for the few who actually want to read the article.
No. Next fucking question. I’d rather data centers have brown-outs than schools.
Don’t need school if you have chat gpt /s
Well… duh. Data center makes dollar, schools costs dollar
An interesting one there, how can schools consumption be compared to that of Data centers
Maybe they just want people to waste time pointing spiderman fingers at eachother for not turning off their computers.
Are they keeping profits from data centres away from schools?
Educating the kids would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The only training they need is how to mow the grass around the data centres.
I actually saw a robotic mower doing that job just a few months ago. I think it was around a school.
Well then we just let them starve and blame them for being homeless.
Killdozer needs to come back…
If you Google the model number their AI will sometimes list the 20 tons of armor as an option like you could just order it that way.
Improve the cooling system first. We are talking about Marvin, right?
Please sir…can I have some more…electricity
said the poor school to the billionaires
How does closing the blinds conserve electricity? O_o
Less AC needed.
Won’t need ac when we’re all forced to live underground in a few years. Hello fellow mole people
Oh that’s right, y’all got AC back there. I forgor.
I know Europe is scant on AC in general, but you guys really don’t even use it in schools? That seems wild to me.
In southern Europe, yes. In northern Europe, generally no need for AC. Remember that Europe is not one country.
No AC in schools. School is out in the summer in general.
We prefer to stick our fingers in our ears, pretend climate change isn’t getting worse and torture our kids and teachers instead. At least after the recent heatwave some conversations are starting to happen.
May June and September don’t have the capability to have hot days in Europe? In 2010 only the newer part of my highschool had AC, but now I believe the whole building does.
We all see this coming, but the billionaires and our state/county/city leaders assure us everything will be fair and fine.
Same deal with water. It will be 100 degrees and data centers will be draining local water supplies, while residents will be told not to water their flowers or take too many showers.
Fuck all this.
I’ll be so sad when the CEOs get Luigi’d.
People will be sacked for turning up to work smelling of sweat. Such fun times.
I love that their solution is to not use the thing that the data centers are supposed to be for.
Oh don’t worry, people in Silicon Valley won’t feel the restrictions and will be running their OpenClaw-type chained agents all night long doing absolutely nothing of worth.
I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO. I really hope this kind of stuff wakes people up enough to do something about it.
I least they got all that money and jobs (right? I’m pretty sure Facebook skirted that actually)
Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people
They also cut the taxes the corporations pay by 50%, at least they didn’t have to build homes or anything useless.
I just yelled “what!” outload.
But also, don’t forget to teach AI and use AI in your school!
https://www.vaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/HenricoGenerativeAIPreparingForDigitalAge.pdf
In Virginia during the fifa World Cup there are a lot of pro data center ads funded by a group that was created for this purpose called Virginia Connects.
It’s the usual shitbags lying to the public to make it sound like data centers are good
In Virginia ads are still running about not leaving rural Virginians behind by banning data centers. Claiming that they will bring jobs to the rural community but those nasty politicians are banning the progress of data centers.
Are they in cahoots with the PACs that support pro AI candidates? (Are they the same groups? I really don’t know.)
County with 37 datacenters can go fuck itself with a cactus.
here come the brownouts motherfuckers…
