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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.
The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.
Does that effectively also mean that the real energy consumption might not be measured accurately?
trump and the dismantling of every regulatory body
trump happened
Do it and pay the fines later. If that nets a profit than the system needs to be changed.
They got bigger and got owned by more evil companies.
Evaporation cooling is cheaper
What changed is that they're now GPU and RAID farms for enslaving humanity. Remember what the NSA did? It's x100 worse.