People are being asked to destroy the value of their property by putting huge power lines through them, claiming it’s akin to an eminent domain issue or “community” when really it’s about one utility company catering to just one customer – a data center.
Big Take: When a Small Town Gets a Big Data Center Feb 27, 2025
The thing that I don’t like about the framing of this podcast is that it’s inevitable, that people have to just accept it, that we all as a society have to just accept AI (or cryptocurrency) as a given, even if you “like green spaces” and saying you have to balance that with “being a tech leader” and I think that’s utter bullshit. We don’t have to do things this way. And AI hype is way way way overblown. They even mention in the podcast that Microsoft is now cancelling data center projects, probably because they’ve figured out that AI hype is a lot of nonsense going nowhere doing nothing.