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Australia wants more data centres. A disagreement over power sources stands in the way (www.sbs.com.au)

submitted 1 month ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone

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Anthony Albanese left the door open at a meeting of the nation's leaders on Wednesday to a more "flexible" approach as Queensland and the Northern Territory refused to agree to standards requiring them to use renewables for new data centre developments.

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[–] Nbard@aussie.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That isn't what this was about tho. @Taleya was talking about how people are conflating datacenters in general with the overpowered LLM ones. And you exemplified that pretty spectacularly.

You also seem to be a bit confused one what a server is vs a datacenter given some of your comments

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And Taleya is probably right with that, which is why that wasn’t addressed. I didn’t agree with the underpinning of every aspect of our lives and while I may or may not be accurate with that, my concern isn’t generated by AI or LLMs, nor is it because I confuse the data centres.

It’s the building of more mass data centres which I don’t believe we necessarily need, and those concerns are based on the data kept, what it’s used for, what is done with data stored against the wishes of the owner and the environmental and social impacts.

That I may not qualify to work in an IT department doesn’t make any difference to this…I’m not alone with this outside these small echo chambers. Taleya might be right when they say people confuse the data centres but not here.

[–] Nbard@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so.. You derailed her comment ranting about things you knew nothing about for...what, exactly?

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My issue wasn’t with confusion of data centres, it was that they underpin every aspect of life which is false.

Most of my hobbies aren’t underpinned by data centres. The relationships I build with people, the outside activities I do…most things I do aren’t underpinned by data centres.

Bit of an issue getting people to understand that around here though. I guess their lives are.