Kinda crazy how this was all built on an ad empire.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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This is cartoonishly ridiculous
What a inefficient use of land, let alone what's being built on it.
Honestly I would probably prefer data centers built in old open pit mines before the mine gets filled back in.
Or maybe build them in Alaska for example where it's cold, or space like a halo?
before the mine gets filled back in.
That has to be prevented from happening, and those mines have pumps in them. Otherwise land around gets poisoned (and also eroded).
So putting useful objects inside those mines at least makes them not just passive expense.
If someone wants to know what if you just don't pump the water out of an unused mine, leaving it be, then they can read what happens in Donbass now that nobody takes care of those many depleted mines there, due to war. It's like Mordor basically.
Since the person above didn't actually give enough information for someone to understand:
Look up "Acid Mine Drainage". Its when sulfide minerals react with water and oxygen to produce sukfuric acid, and it occurs in pretty much every mine once it's opened, and continues to accrue and leak for thousands of years. Ancient Roman mines are still leaking the toxic, acidic sludge today, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
It's cheap to build on that land and labor is cheap and less legal fight against the company if some fuckup happens
Why does every site try to get me to install an app that is just their site in a browser?
Use Firefox focus and firewall level ad blocking. Takes care of 90% of this kind of bullshit.
One reason (of several): so that you can't block ads
I'm assuming you are using a mobile browser. Switch it to desktop mode to put a stop to it.
You still can, at least on Android, it's just less straightforward, and a bit less consistent
For anyone curious, makes mobile gaming a whole lot less painful too
Easier gathering tracking data and allows them to give you notifications to increase engagement.
If you were looking for an honest answer that is.
I hate it too.
Did they purposefully name it after the dystopian borderlands Corporation?
or after the GREEK titan, because its "huge"
These guys usually name their shit after science fiction novels that they didn't understand the themes of. This is likely named after the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons.
Release the shrike!
Well, hopefully we’ll get a shrike and it’ll put all the billionaires in the tree of pain.
Its the tormentus nexus
Probably
It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.
They're openly saying it, mocking the masses
I think there's some prior art (about 100y) by a poet named Hölderlin.
I'd say more like a couple thousand years
Let's not be cherry picking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion
Hyperion is one of the oldest names we have though? Why do you think Hölderlin wrote that poem?
Will it get finished this time? Place your bets!
My money is on the project getting cancelled before they finish.
Feel sorry people living near it.
I used to live down the street from a great big data center. It wasn't a big deal. It's basically just a building full of servers with extra AC units.
Inside? Loud AF (think: Jet engine. Wear hearing protection).
Outside: The hum of lots of industrial air conditioning units. Only marginally louder than a big office building.
A data center this big is going to have a lot more AC units than normal but they'll be spread all around the building. It's not like living next to an airport or busy train tracks (that's like 100x worse).
I think its more that their power bills are going to go up 3x.
Yep. The situation of data centers being planned and constructed everywhere at the same time is entirely different from even 5 years ago. Things will get expensive. They‘re buying the hardware, resources and space that we all need and will sell them to us at an up price.
And water bills too.
Well, if it is a bubble (at least the centralization part, not the "AI" part), then they are building locations with plenty of energy and water connected. Can help with re-industrialization a bit later.
Yeah data centers they are building here give two fucks about noise canceling. They are as loud on the outside.
Not all datacenters bother with noise abaitment.
*Abatement
Depends. Normally yes (I’ve been in data centers like you’re talking about), but because it’s likely using GPUs for the LLM it’s probably considerably louder. Closer to this, which is a crypto mine: https://theweek.com/tech/the-noise-of-bitcoin-mining-is-driving-americans-crazy
It doesn’t look like it will even be a single building. For a site that size they’re going to need maintenance buildings and a power plant, grounds crews, security, climate services, offices, cafeteria, reception; probably put some R&D labs out there. It’s almost certainly not going to be one huge monolith, although it will certainly be mostly server buildings.
I was watching Some More News segment on it today. Those fuckers are loud.
No joke, some worker on another thread tried to gaslight people telling them it just air conditioning and not bad. I wanted to tell them to get fucked.
So why didn't you
If someone made a giant datacenter on my private minecraft server, what would be the best way to sabotage it?
Poisoning the concrete. Slow but effective when they start loading the heavy equipment.
Not easy to do since it'll require access to a controlled construction site.
Get a clip board, a hi-vis vest, and a camera. Go in around sundown, you may unironically get access at least once or twice. Would probably require some scouting first.
A pity it just allows comparing with us addresses
There are people living outside the USA?
Indeed, how did they fuck that up so badly? I feel like you have to be trying these days to embed a map and address picker and not have it support global addresses.
It's as long as the city I live in from top to bottom.