It doesn't matter. The perception is all datacenters do AI (not necessarily wrong nowadays either) and that's all that matters to the public when they see so many lost jobs and high computer / phone prices.
replyAnd how does the public know there is a datacenter inside a random building?
replyEither it's being proposed or other people tell them about them. It's not hard to find out where datacenters are.
replyThe local government would need to know, and that would come out in town meetings.
replyBrowse Google Maps aerial view and look for the backup generators.
replyEvery produce storage facility going to have them, won't it?
replyNo. It’s not economical for produce to have backup generators. Better to just move produce or let it go.
reply"That's not a datacenter. It's just a regular old building consuming 20+MW of electricity"
replyYou can hear them from quite far away since companies like X use on-site Methane Gas Turbine Generators because they don't want to wait for the grid capacity to catch up.
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