Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
In Virginia during the fifa World Cup there are a lot of pro data center ads funded by a group that was created for this purpose called Virginia Connects.
It’s the usual shitbags lying to the public to make it sound like data centers are good
In Virginia ads are still running about not leaving rural Virginians behind by banning data centers. Claiming that they will bring jobs to the rural community but those nasty politicians are banning the progress of data centers.
We all see this coming, but the billionaires and our state/county/city leaders assure us everything will be fair and fine.
Same deal with water. It will be 100 degrees and data centers will be draining local water supplies, while residents will be told not to water their flowers or take too many showers.
Fuck all this.
I love that their solution is to not use the thing that the data centers are supposed to be for.
Oh don’t worry, people in Silicon Valley won’t feel the restrictions and will be running their OpenClaw-type chained agents all night long doing absolutely nothing of worth.
So it’s official now. AI comes before schools, and before children. Welp. So much for thinking about the children.
The children only matter in election cycles
and before they’re born.
Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.
Same play here.
California also has the stupidest water rights with “use it or lose” it clauses that counters any incentives to become more efficient. A couple families control a ridiculous amount of water rights.
Killdozer needs to come back…
Here’s an archive link for the few who actually want to read the article.
How does closing the blinds conserve electricity? O_o
Less AC needed.
Oh that’s right, y’all got AC back there. I forgor.
I know Europe is scant on AC in general, but you guys really don’t even use it in schools? That seems wild to me.
No AC in schools. School is out in the summer in general.
We prefer to stick our fingers in our ears, pretend climate change isn’t getting worse and torture our kids and teachers instead. At least after the recent heatwave some conversations are starting to happen.
We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.
We need
Anonymousto do something about data centers.Don’t wait for others to save us.
