This article repeats the claim it's NZ's first datacentre, in the headline and in the article, but I think it might be the first AI one or the first of it's size. It's certainly not the first datacentre in NZ!

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just the typical quality of journalism. You can spot the factual errors because you know better: most people can't.

They'll be parroting whatever marketing drivel the company's provided them.

"NZ's first datacentre (of this scale | in this region | for this operator | dedicated to AI)"

The journalist just drops the 'confusing bit'.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess this has been a thing my whole life. I remember reading newspapers thinking every article I have background knowledge in is wrong in some way, so we really need to take articles about things we don't understand with a grain of salt as well.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago

More than with a grain of salt, assume that at least one assertion in the article is as inaccurate as this articles'.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Having been inside many datacenters, this headline is incorrect or out of date

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 days ago

Lemmy NZ is literally run from a data centre lol. This map has over 60 in NZ, and it probably doesn't even have all of them.