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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago by compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/michigan/p/403803/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-america-s-nuclear-weapon

Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good for them, meanwhile in Tulsa they are building 27 of these with little push back, almost no active ones I can see.

Fucking things should be fired bombed.

[+] riskable@programming.dev -19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You know they're just buildings full of servers, right?

I mean, I'd rather have a data center than some toxic chemical factory or a busy warehouse in my neighborhood. Data centers just... sit there. They use a lot of power and some use a lot of water, but if your region doesn't have power/water problems it's not really much of an impact.

A nation's supercomputing power used to be something people celebrated. Especially one owned and operated by a place like Los Alamos National Laboratory.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Go look at places these things operate they don't just sit there. The noise alone is in the ranges that requires hearing protection. And if you live near one you will loose all your water. Then add the lights. These places cause physical harm to people living near them.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 20 points 1 month ago

Take a long, hard look at the impact. Higher utility bills for everyone. Massive light noise. Noise, incessant noise. Water pressure issues.

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Local residents in cities with data centers are dealing with higher electricity costs. Those costs get passed on from the corps to the local residents. On top of that they’re dealing with water scarcity and pollution.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 1 month ago

Ypsi is in the Ann Arbor zone. This is otherwise decent real estate. A data center would tank that. I hope the data center loses, but we’ve seen many a city council sell out their constituents for these leviathans.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Since this will be a facility owned by a public university, I think the city would see no property tax revenue from this project. So why should a city trade its health and/or morals for a nuclear weapons datacenter and not even get anything out of it?

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago