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re: Are there any confirmed negative impacts of data centers?
Posted on 7/23/26 at 2:05 am to theliontamer
Posted on 7/23/26 at 2:05 am to theliontamer
I honestly don't even know what a data center is.
This post was edited on 7/23/26 at 2:54 am
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Posted on 7/23/26 at 3:48 am to REB BEER
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Everyone wants to use AI, but no one wants AI data centers.
#NIMBY on
Who is everyone?
Posted on 7/23/26 at 4:00 am to theliontamer
Can you stfu with these data center posts
Posted on 7/23/26 at 4:05 am to JohnnyKilroy
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China going all in on solar and EVs while convincing the US to hold ourselves back.
I see you left out how they're building an absurd amount coal plants too. Over 50 in 2025 alone.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 4:55 am to Scruffy
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They don’t build those in the middle of already setup neighborhoods
And we are building one in Louisiana in the middle of no where and what's the big complaint?
Wasting valuable farmland. If all you look for is negative, you will find it.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 5:01 am to Recognizable Poster
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I honestly don't even know what a data center is.
A place where your personal data will be mined by humans and non humans to make a handful of folks super wealthy by mining your data and selling it to folks you don't know while you work as a wage slave to pay your bills and receiving not a single penny from this information resale.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 5:15 am to Cheese Grits
Well that doesn't sound very good at all. Anyways, I get it. It's like a server farm
Posted on 7/23/26 at 5:27 am to Easye921
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I see you left out how they're building an absurd amount coal plants too. Over 50 in 2025 alone.
While china is building a massive amount of solar farms, they aren’t decommissioning any coal and are rapidly increasing their capacity as quickly as possible.
China is the world’s biggest CO2 emitter and it’s because they use lignite coal. Don’t trust China. China is asshoe
This post was edited on 7/23/26 at 5:28 am
Posted on 7/23/26 at 6:06 am to Recognizable Poster
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I get it. It's like a server farm
Think of "the cloud" on steroids
I am amazed we bought that sham so easily. Your data is not is a fluffy cloud but a server farm that you have no control over and are unable to monitor when the owners mine your files and sell this information without consent or financial payment.
Imagine if I lived in your house and took from you and stalked you 24 / 7 / 365. That would land my butt in jail. Yet a "cloud" can do the same and nobody raises an eyebrow in disgust or disbelief.
Humans as individuals are smart
Humans as a group are dumb as sheep
Posted on 7/23/26 at 7:18 am to Cheese Grits
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Humans as a group are dumb as sheep
Posted on 7/23/26 at 7:32 am to KosmoCramer
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And the liberals latched on
A bunch of conservatives are against them to
Posted on 7/23/26 at 8:27 am to BHM
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And we are building one in Louisiana in the middle of no where and what's the big complaint?
Because they're also building 6 750MW power plant units to run it. Which despite how much they "pinky promise" that it won't raise residential electricity/Entergy rates; nobody believes them.
Throw in the compounding effect of natural gas demand to run these power plants; the additional CLECO/SWEPCO/AEP plants that they're building, and our electricity rates are going to have a significant jump over the next 5 years.
And that's if everything goes smoothly with the Public Service Commission/Entergy/Data Center mandatory agreements.
This post was edited on 7/23/26 at 8:28 am
Posted on 7/23/26 at 8:28 am to KosmoCramer
Doesn’t China build theirs in the ocean to use sea water for cooling?
Why are we using tons of land and our own fresh water to run these places that no one has a grasp on the reason for their existence?
Why are we using tons of land and our own fresh water to run these places that no one has a grasp on the reason for their existence?
Posted on 7/23/26 at 8:35 am to LSUA 75
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I suppose they’ll draw water from CLECO lake,reportedly they’ll use a closed loop cooling system.
I think that one is using well water for their cooling. The only one that I've seen that will use surface water is the Amazon north west of Shreveport that will draw from Caddo Lake. All the other ones around the state (so far) will use city/municipal water or have their own well.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 8:56 am to Penrod
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Pollution is very light, too. In short, it’s all nonsense.
Your whole post was opinion and factually incorrect. There are many issues which have been pointed out already in this thread. If you choose not to acknowledge them, that's up to you.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 9:03 am to theliontamer
I'm against AI and data centers but that cat is out of the bag. It's the American way to see an upcoming weapon to use against us and throw everything at it in an overwhelming fashion.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 9:04 am to theliontamer
Yes. There are. You’ll subsidize them so incels can have ai girlfriends.
This post was edited on 7/23/26 at 9:05 am
Posted on 7/23/26 at 9:07 am to Cheese Grits
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A place where your personal data will be mined by humans and non humans to make a handful of folks super wealthy by mining your data and selling it to folks you don't know while you work as a wage slave to pay your bills and receiving not a single penny from this information resale.
well maybe dont be a low iq dumb frick and learn to use AI to automate daily task and to make you 3x more productive and use it to teach you things you never knew how to do before
or use it to create apps, even if only web based, that makes you money.
some of you are so fricking scared to learn new things and would rather come on here and just bitch
no matter what industry you are in, you can use AI to make your productivity at least double.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 9:16 am to lsu777
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no matter what industry you are in, you can use AI to make your productivity at least double.
I just said I was against it, but hell, I use it. It is very nice to simply ask a question and get immediate results for a study I was looking for rather than spending an hour looking for it. My field is specialized so AI isn't always correct. Not yet anyway
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