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AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring: Even a whiff of AI money seems to disgust voters. (futurism.com)
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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, you also cannot discern the difference in traditional DCs and AI DCs? I feel like you know and I'm missing something.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Scale. Older data centers fit in the "light industrial" zoned parts of town and required some minor grid upgrades to the local electrical distribution.

Planned data centers require as much power as an entire rural state and are the size of a small town and get buit too fast to wait for any new power generation to be added to the grid.