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[–] weps@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I've been working in data centers since 2008.

What happened? What changed? They used to be incredible.

I haven't been in a data center in a couple of years.

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Companies are exploiting regulatory loopholes as they construct new facilities powered by pollutant-spewing onsite gas plants.

The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.

[–] Majoran@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Does that effectively also mean that the real energy consumption might not be measured accurately?

[–] corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 14 points 6 days ago

trump and the dismantling of every regulatory body

trump happened

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Do it and pay the fines later. If that nets a profit than the system needs to be changed.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

They got bigger and got owned by more evil companies.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Evaporation cooling is cheaper

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 0 points 6 days ago

What changed is that they're now GPU and RAID farms for enslaving humanity. Remember what the NSA did? It's x100 worse.