If you are trying to keep something cool why would you put it in Arizona
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Because as humans we are insanely stupid. I think we all know the answer. Money is why Arizona. We don't do what's right. We do what is cheap and effective. It just happens that sometimes that is right too.
I recently watched a video about the first electronic synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and was housed in the basement of an entire city block in NYC. Several decades later, and it would fit in a suitcase, with far more functionality. It worked, but it was huge and unwieldly, to the point of being completely impractical. It needed to wait until the technology caught up to it, and made it a truly viable instrument, and not just a concept.
Data Centers are like that 1897 synthesizer. It works, sure, but at what cost? It's expensive in every way, from the building costs, the energy costs, the environmental costs, etc. We have a concept and a prototype, but not a truly viable product yet. Maybe in a decade or two, with a proper goal in mind, we can get there, but right now, Data Centers are just that big, dumb synthesizer that takes up a city block.
Ah but that's where you're mistaken. The electronic Synthesizer actually had a use. Data centers are a waste the whole way around, and they always will be.
Valid.
Good thing it's not hot in Phoenix.
Debating a data center IMO is the same as debating a Nazis right to exist. They should've been stopped before they could get going and now that its too late to stop them we just gotta kill them instead.
I wonder how muchv it raises from you know, ever multi giga watt power plant?
Suppose it depends how much gas they each fire to keep the slop boiling
Sadly we actually need power plants, the Data Centers though are trash.
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