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re: Are there any confirmed negative impacts of data centers?
Posted on 7/22/26 at 5:53 pm to TigerTatorTots
Posted on 7/22/26 at 5:53 pm to TigerTatorTots
quote:Yea, but no one drops a large industrial plant into the middle of an already established neighborhood.
Some say theres a noise issue for those immediately surrounding the facility but thats no different than any of these large industrial plants.
Next time a sugar mill or an oil refinery is built in the middle of an established neighborhood, let me know.
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Posted on 7/22/26 at 5:53 pm to TigerTatorTots
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Other than using a lot of water and power,
Oh so other than consuming vast amounts of the 2 most essential and necessary resources to modern life they don’t consume a lot.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 6:51 pm to theliontamer
They do not use a lot of workers to run it
Which makes all the incentives rather odd
Which makes all the incentives rather odd
Posted on 7/22/26 at 6:54 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
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Very few jobs are created
The amount of jobs lost due to AI means these data centers are a net negative for jobs
Posted on 7/22/26 at 7:10 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
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they use massive amounts of land.
One of the biggest data centers in the country is in Richland parish and is about 4,000 acres. Richland parish by itself is over 368,000 acres.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 7:21 pm to theliontamer
I wouldn't want to live within 50 miles of one.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 8:13 pm to Scruffy
quote:or they're thinking about the handfuls of jobs they bring
Yea, I highly doubt any of the people touting how great they are live across the street from one.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 8:15 pm to terriblegreen
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I wouldn't want to live within 50 miles of one
A decent chance you live within 50 miles of one and just don't realize it
Posted on 7/22/26 at 8:23 pm to Turnblad85
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One of the biggest data centers in the country is in Richland parish and is about 4,000 acres. Richland parish by itself is over 368,000 acres.
So over 1% of the entire parish is a single facility. That’s pretty damned large.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 8:30 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Seems they bought a lot of buffer area.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 8:48 pm to fightin tigers
Well they are going to need maintenance people and operators to keep the Data Centers running . Maintenance people to repair water lines and leaks, electricians for electrical problems, building maintenance for facilities problems, etc. probably not a lot of people but some for sure.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 9:01 pm to Scruffy
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I will oppose their building on top of already built communities.
If communities build around them, like all other industries/factories/plants, I have no issue with it.
First of all, who is this "I" to whom Scruffy refers?
Secondly, I don't disagree. However
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Right or wrong, that's the rub.
This post was edited on 7/22/26 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 7/22/26 at 9:03 pm to theliontamer
The data center being built near Boyce is across I-49 from the town,I doubt noise pollution will be an issue for them.
I suppose they’ll draw water from CLECO lake,reportedly they’ll use a closed loop cooling system.
I’m curious about a few things:1-why did they pay $40,000 an acre for the land.Prime farmland in that area sells for about $5,500-$8,000/acre.
2)-why did 8 of the 9 police jurors for Rapides parish sign NDA’s.
3)There are several class action lawsuit against them pending.The basis of the lawsuits are that Applied Digital misrepresented the profitabiity of it’s database hosting business and exaggerated their ability to transition into a low-costb AI cloud service provider.
Also allegations of corporate governance failures April 2022-July 2023 timeframe.
Supposedly violated Nasdaq listing rules by not revealing that ADC’s board of directors were not truly independent but were controlled by B.Riley Financial.
I certainly don’t know if the basis of these lawsuits are legitimate or if they’re bullshite.
It’s not really going to affect me if the whole deal goes sideways.I live in Grant Parish 9 mi.away as the crow flies and I don’t get my electricity from CLECO.Some in the parish do.
I suppose they’ll draw water from CLECO lake,reportedly they’ll use a closed loop cooling system.
I’m curious about a few things:1-why did they pay $40,000 an acre for the land.Prime farmland in that area sells for about $5,500-$8,000/acre.
2)-why did 8 of the 9 police jurors for Rapides parish sign NDA’s.
3)There are several class action lawsuit against them pending.The basis of the lawsuits are that Applied Digital misrepresented the profitabiity of it’s database hosting business and exaggerated their ability to transition into a low-costb AI cloud service provider.
Also allegations of corporate governance failures April 2022-July 2023 timeframe.
Supposedly violated Nasdaq listing rules by not revealing that ADC’s board of directors were not truly independent but were controlled by B.Riley Financial.
I certainly don’t know if the basis of these lawsuits are legitimate or if they’re bullshite.
It’s not really going to affect me if the whole deal goes sideways.I live in Grant Parish 9 mi.away as the crow flies and I don’t get my electricity from CLECO.Some in the parish do.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 9:05 pm to Tigeralum2008
quote:That's the funny thing - I can get rid of that whenever I want. I can't get rid of a million flock cameras tracking me without a warrant. How we've gotten this far without a challenge to the Supreme Court is beyond me.
The cell phone in your pocket has been doing that since 2010
Posted on 7/22/26 at 10:24 pm to Black n Gold
Do you consider a 350,000 sf building large? I do. Some of the campuses around Atlanta have 12-16 of them on one campus. I am not complaining though. I work in an industry that benefits greatly from data center construction. And, the closest campus to me is 40 miles away.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 10:43 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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So over 1% of the entire parish is a single facility. That’s pretty damned large.
If you say so.
Keep in mind that Richland is one of the smaller 64 parishes. in La. Also that its one of the biggest DCs in the United States.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 10:47 pm to Scruffy
I also haven't seen one of these mega data centers be proposed for the middle of an established neighborhood but I admit I havent looked at mapping of the proposed ones. My impression was that they are in mostly rural areas. Most of the refineries and industrial plants have <1500ft buffer zones between the plant fence and surrounding neighborhoods
Posted on 7/22/26 at 11:50 pm to Turnblad85
I understand both of those completely. But someone trying to say they don’t occupy that much space posted the one that occupies over 1% of a parish.
Posted on 7/22/26 at 11:52 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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I understand both of those completely.
doesn't sound like you do
Posted on 7/23/26 at 12:28 am to theliontamer
AI Data Center Power Demands Trigger Rolling Brownouts in Tech Hubs
John Markoff
Last updated: July 20, 2026 4:51 am. link
John Markoff
Last updated: July 20, 2026 4:51 am. link
quote:
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The unyielding physical limitations of the American electrical grid have violently collided with the exponential growth of artificial intelligence. Over the past week, residents and businesses across Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia have experienced a series of unprecedented, localized rolling brownouts. Municipal utility operatorshave definitively traced the severe electrical strain directly to a massive cluster of newly commissioned hyper-scale data centers, facilities explicitly constructed to train the next generation of multi-trillion parameter large language models.
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