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So not the massive Chinese bot farm (200K +) launching anti-datacenter propaganda campaigns? It's just the green energy concern? ("Spiking local prices" was one
by slowmovintarget 14d ago
So not the massive Chinese bot farm (200K +) launching anti-datacenter propaganda campaigns? It's just the green energy concern? ("Spiking local prices" was one of the propaganda talking points.)
These new AI data centers are now built with their own power generation capacity. They're too electricity hungry to be supplied by the local grid, requiring megawatts to gigawatts of generation. If they're grid-connected at all (for training / inference racks + cooling) it is secondary supplementation.
There is a concerted effort by foreign governments to slow down American progress in fielding AI capability. Attempts to generate civil unrest and propaganda against $new_thing are included in this.
- BigTTYGothGF 14d agoAh, the good old "outside agitators" canard. > These new AI data centers are now built with their own power generation capacity And now you've got all the noise and pollution from that to deal with.
- slowmovintarget 14d agoSome of the data centers build out solar, most are natural gas turbines. The outside agitators are in the news. The U.S. just happens to be a little more vulnerable to "straight to the people" propaganda campaigns.
- bothers 14d agoPropaganda, which the largest corporations on earth, including news media behemoths, would never, ever stoop to. Right?