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Also the unforced error around NDAs and attempts at bypassing environmental and other reviews. People don’t like the idea of their local elected officials bypassing the rules in the dark.

I understand these companies want to move fast, but this seems to be one of those cases where going slow gets you there faster.

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People dislike secretive bureaucrats more than they dislike slow or overstaffed ones.

Good luck with this attitude homie!

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The thinking on display in this thread is something like,

"I needed to add a billing address field to the order flow, so I suggested we use Kafka to process shipping requests. My boss said the form field should turn red if an invalid address was entered, and in response, the team lead objected that Oracle charged too much for MySQL. I checked for a pricing page but found a 'call us' form. The CTO decided to go with Kafka, and told us that landlines are an obsolete platform."

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I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say.
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That can't be true. People obviously believe DCs have big local impact and it really does affect their power bills at least.

The global impact of AI doesn't change when you force DCs to build in another area.

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The noise issues seem real, but don’t impact whole cities
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I live in northern va and I can tell you that histeria is about ballooning electric and other bills. vast majority of population is unfortunately “not there” in regards to any unrest about AI
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Yup. From Fairfax. Very much what you said.
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