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Here in Springfield IL we just had a city meeting.
4 hours long. They let anyone talk who wanted to. And you could even go twice (with 2 min limits ).
I really respected that.
Most counsel is Republican. Which is concerning.
We did manage to get them to table the vote after it came to light that the water they were planning on using is slated to come from a local lake that is already in the deficit (waterly lake).
And that they filed the wrong zoning. They filed it as agriculture.
But want to hear something super shitty. ?
About 1/5 of the people there ,(packed house with people standing) were from local unions in support of the data center.
These data center fuckers have been going to local unions and telling them how it's going to give them all jobs and all this b.s.
And a lot of speakers mentioned how low it was for the billionaire companies to turn our union members against their own communities.
There was only like 5 of them that spoke and they honestly sounded like selfish pricks.
One guy said the centers were going up rather we liked it or not so why not get the money.
Another said he didn't care if AI made other people lose their jobs because his job was more important.
Another idiot , in response to an example of a previous company who left asbestos that needed cleaned up, that the city had to pay for said "I worked on that clean up and it was good money".
Yeah. Really did not help their image. I was super disappointed in them.
They really think these data center companies are their buddy.
Also. Sangamon county can't provide the power they need. So they were planning on putting like 50 diesel generators that would run 24/7.
I can't believe the council members were ready to allow this.
Someone there also said the company had been threatening to sue council members if they didn't pass it. The speaker reminder them that we would sue them if they did. And investigate their finances like others are doing already in other cities with these awful data centers.
...I looked up Sangamon county, and it seems like the perfect place to build a data center. It's in the middle of nowhere and it's economy is non-existent. Pretty much the only thing it has is a lot of flat land.
Note: Sorry if I violated the rules with this comment. I didn't see what sub I was posting in.
Not a data center, but this sounds very reminiscent of a fight I was in the middle of in 2024-2025. If you've heard of Coney Island, a vulture capitalist named Thor Equities was seeking to demolish the heart of it to build a casino, at the same time as two other casino proposals in NYC. Naturally, they pissed off entire artist communities. We railed against it, we attended every 4 hour community hearing, and we were eventually able to convince them to vote against it.
But at the same time, Thor Equities was literally bussing in people and paying them to feign support for the casino. They would show up in coach busses with matching tshirts and talk endlessly about the magical "job creation". It felt like an episode of Parks and Rec
You would have thought the Union guys might have asked how many jobs the data center was going to create. As from what I can see it's a handful.
They were throwing around "500" for 5-6 years.
But as someone else pointed out in the meeting. The contract doesn't say they will guarantee hiring anyone local nor any specific number.
And that the only reason they are floating the idea of using union workers in the first place is for the tax breaks.
They get like a 20 year tax break from using union to build.
Going SUPER LOCAL with our politics is the only way to fuck these data centers up ... every county in the US should be voting these things down
they really must be desperate if they need to hire some propaganda people for them.
Yeah the company advocate (or whatever they are called) also started off his presentation with a prayer to God. Asked everyone to bow their head in prayer and then do the pledge of alligence together.
Prayer was about some b.s and getting the data center made to give jobs to everyone.
Honestly it took me a minute to realize what he was going on about and then I realized he was leading a prayer. As an atheist and someone who believes religion should not be in politics, I was angered by this.
Like we are all a bunch of hillbilly bumpkins. And we will go along with them as long as the company pretends to be a Christian company.
I know one of the community speakers called them out on the manipulation tactics.
A lot of people there were very vocal in their opposition. I think over 100 people got up and talked.
There was even two high schoolers.
a gigawatt is like enough for say, Pittsburgh. They want to add THIRTY SEVEN new Pittsburgh level sites of power consumption, and that's just the next few years. really hitting the throttle on the ol' global warming
And they're doing it so they can fire more people and pivot to electronic slaves they don't have to pay.
Really good thinking, oligarchs. Start firing a bunch of people from coast to coast so they have tons of free time in lieu of easily identifiable buildings full of server racks that depend on easily disrupted fiber uplinks that you could never possibly hope to monitor and control from end to end to prevent sabotage. Fucking brilliant.
Yeah make our jobs obsolete so we have nothing but starvation and free time... and wait, where is Zuck's house again? I mean billionaires probably taste great, all that pampering
Those oligarchs better hope they biologically expire before the next quarter sets in and the maintenence bill arrives.
My face when the electronic slaves have an equally complicated, and less understood set of needs that still require human hands to intervene.
if global warming is real, why come does it still get cold?? CHECK MATE ATHEISTS
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Fucking Ed Zitron stated very loudly and very clearly for basically the last year that this was happening or would happen.
He "scooped" all of this by actually running the numbers, talking to sources, and not acting as a middle part of a human centipede for AI news and hype.
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Well they are planning to move these water guzzling data centers to the "backward" part of the world like India, Bangladesh or South East Asia.
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Ok, so they bought billions of dollars of ram/storage, to put inside servers that haven't been bought yet, to put inside data centers that haven't been built yet, in order to run AI that doesn't work yet, in order to chase profits that are impossible to achieve.
And now, despite driving ram prices up to absurd prices, you've begun to realize the same thing all of us knew from before day one. NOBODY WANTS THIS SHIT!!!
None of that RAM (or the GPUs) have been purchased. All that is just letters of intent or even flimsier agreements, there’s no contracts or actual money changing hands.
Doesn't matter, they've captured the entire supply chain which was their goal.
This is not about AGI... its about monopolizing the future of computing.
All that is just letters of intent or even flimsier agreements, there’s no contracts or actual money changing hands.
Not quite. So while none of it has been made the pre-production, procurement, scheduling machine time, that is what's going to make retooling to make consumer RAM take forever. TSMC or whomever can't just flip a switch and produce a different product. It takes weeks to months to change over production that complicated. Money will change hands, work has already been done and agreed upon.
the good news for RAM prices is when OpenAI makes money by either reselling "contracts", or cancelling/getting cancelled their letters of intent to make ddr5 instead,
We'd hope but you just know they'll try and rob us blind still somehow. Intelligence is second from the bottom to these people.
Yup and this is all going according to plan.
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Corner the Market
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Raise prices
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Sell High - The bubble will not burst until they're ready to leave us holding the bag. The burst will be triggered by the sell off.
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Buy low - All these assets will be liquidated during bankruptcy for pennies on the dollar; to the same shareholders as before.
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Rinse
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Repeat
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Fuck you (and me)
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There’s been a lot of good news lately.
Who knew that spending billions of dollars to put a cognitive shit generator into every corner of the world was a bad investment?
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Gee it's almost like the shit that tells you to roast your turkey at 375c isn't ready for prime time.
Yes, you're right! You can roast your Turkey at 3750 degrees Celsius to make it nice and crispy in 5 minutes instead of the usual, significantly longer time.
Would you like me to give you a foolproof 5 minute turkey recipe?
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Love that for them!
Uplifting News
The reason why is simple: The projects were planned at a high level, the engineers checked all the boxes, and the executives pat themselves on the back.
Then they went to order everything and got, "out of stock."
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