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re: Wecome To Data Center Central: Virginia
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:09 pm to Mizz-SEC
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:09 pm to Mizz-SEC
I like the end of the video where the reporter is standing across the street from the data center. You can't hear the data center, but you can hear the cars driving by him. Hmm...
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Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:10 pm to Mizz-SEC
Northern Virginia has been an epicenter for data centers since the early 2000s. When I left Prince William County in 2004 they were being built all over PW and Loudon Counties. At the time they were a boon for my parents in subsidizing property taxes.. no clue if that’s still the case in Va.
All of a sudden they are just now this terrible phenomenon? I can understand folks don’t want the land near them developed for anything… but that is the beauty of property rights. The folks that own the land can do with it what they please.
I love the clearly AI generated anti data center posts on the socials as well.
All of a sudden they are just now this terrible phenomenon? I can understand folks don’t want the land near them developed for anything… but that is the beauty of property rights. The folks that own the land can do with it what they please.
I love the clearly AI generated anti data center posts on the socials as well.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:12 pm to HarryHoudini
They have big plans for us plebes.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:19 pm to Dixie2023
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Northern Virginia has been an epicenter for data centers since the early 2000s. When I left Prince William County in 2004 they were being built all over PW and Loudon Counties. At the time they were a boon for my parents in subsidizing property taxes.. no clue if that’s still the case in Va.
yep. go to Google Earth and take a close look at the "Business Park" off the North end of Dulles runway. LOTS of data centers.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:25 pm to Scruffy
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Just out of curiosity, do they generally put refineries right on top of cities?
Hell, in LA, they are general eyesores, but no one lives right next to them.
How many refineries were built right next to existing neighborhoods?
Um, try NORCO, St. Rose, and Chalmette just for starters. Plenty of Nice neighborhoods near all the plants right outside of BR.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:29 pm to Mizz-SEC
Posted on 6/19/26 at 12:35 pm to HarryHoudini
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What is the point of these things? And why are they all of sudden popping up everywhere?
Gives Luddites something to bitch about
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:19 pm to Lambdatiger1989
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Um, try NORCO, St. Rose, and Chalmette just for starters. Plenty of Nice neighborhoods near all the plants right outside of BR.
were those refineries there first? Or did the neighborhoods build next to them?
I think the point is, the DCs are being built next/close to existing residential areas. I can understand the anger from residents.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:38 pm to Centinel
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Virginia is for Third World Immigrants" might be more accurate based on how NoVa is looking these days.
I was in Loudoun County 3 weeks ago. I couldn't believe the amount of immigrants in the area. fricking eye opening and I live in the Houston area
Posted on 6/19/26 at 1:57 pm to HarryHoudini
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What is the point of these things? And why are they all of sudden popping up everywhere?
Surveillance
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:26 pm to HarryHoudini
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Were we not able to do that before data centers?
Yes. But today's expectations for availability, scalability, and risk tolerance for just about anything web related demands capabilities only found in massive data centers.
There's a reason why just about everything online these days is cloud-based, to include this very website. Not sure when Chicken migrated to AWS, but that's where we are now.
These demands constantly increase, so cloud providers have to constantly increase their capacity. AI just threw gasoline on the fire.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 2:44 pm to SM6
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All of a sudden they are just now this terrible phenomenon?
To generate the proper outrage, you need to call it an "AI data center." The data centers that host Tigerdroppings and Instagram don't count. Cause they're totally different.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 4:56 pm to theunknownknight
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You are gonna hear china and AI
But most of these are corporate scams to steal money
The data centers in Loudon County really aren't any of the above. They are primarily hyperscale facilities for cloud operations and colocation centers.
The majority of the world's internet traffic goes through there.
These centers are distinct from the AI and LLM data centers being built in more rural areas. The AI/LLM data centers tend to be much bigger and can be farther from civilizations because latency is not a big issue.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 5:02 pm to Mizz-SEC
I bet these people still use the shite out of the things this data center powers.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 5:05 pm to Girth Donor
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I was in Loudoun County 3 weeks ago. I couldn't believe the amount of immigrants in the area. fricking eye opening and I live in the Houston area
Just an fyi Loudon is the richest per capita county in the country.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 5:13 pm to Centinel
Gotcha. Thanks for filling me in.
Posted on 6/19/26 at 6:05 pm to HarryHoudini
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What is the point of these things? And why are they all of sudden popping up everywhere?
Various reasons. So Facebook users can generate their AI memes to share to their friends. So companies can replace their customer service staff with AI chatbots.
The answer is so that companies can use AI in whatever form or fashion suits them.
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