Hyperscaling is so obviously bad for market stability that it should be regulated out of existence.
Its entire aim is to buy a near-monopoly by pouring oceans of cash into an industry explicitly for the purpose of eliminating the chance of actual competition.
Unless you’re in the club and have access to unlimited money, you cannot compete with people willing to buy all of the inputs at inflated prices while selling the service at a loss for years.
The fact that a company with an infinity checkbook can show up in a county and disrupt their entire economy without any real penalty for failure is just more evidence of this.
But, did you see that ballroom? Totally worth it…
Cool, do a pedophile ban next.
I think there are existing laws covering that topic
Am I seeing this right, there’s even one in Texas?
All hope is not lost.
I’m from VA, which has more data centers in the state than any other in the country. They want to push even more into place and our local and state government seems to be all for it. All it’s doing is costing us money so AI companies can cash in on all the people that want to make stupid memes. The modern world sucks.
Not to mention the cost of electricity in VA continues to rise because these data centers keep sucking up all the electricity on our grid. Wait’ll wintertime and your electric bill is gonna be more than tripled.
Source: am electrician who works in data centers
Virtually all of these are temporary moratoriums, most-likely to let the city examine impact of some proposed development and gather feedback.
There are three permanent bans in force:
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Pemberton Township, New Jersey (27k people)
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Warrenton, Virginia, specific 42-acre area (10k people)
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Weaverville, North Carolina (4.5k people)
St. Charles, Missouri is also listed as permanent, but the text says that there is a temporary moratorium with a proposed permanent ban.
Note that this and most of the others do not appear to be specific to anything AI-related; this is all data centers.
If it raises my electric bill - I don’t need it near me.
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All your power and water are belong to us
Tech is paying off governors to cancel local prohibitions, and the feds might be paid off to try to pre-empt any of these local laws too although idk if they can legally.
