this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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Remember when we were told to conserve energy with energy efficient appliances and such? We were told to conserve water with low flow showers and toilets? Guess where those savings all went.
Silver lining: It's a bubble and not sustainable...even from an economical view. Many of those data centers will be ruins before the end of the decade because there never was an actual use for them to begin with.
Nah, they'll be repurposed for cloud computing.
Like my stupid Creative T40 computer speakers that auto shut off after a few minutes of silence to save a handful of millijoules, then annoyingly take 4 seconds to power back up.
No way to turn off that "feature".