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Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly that doesn't really need a datacenter, a single solar panel and a low power computer or couple of PIs.

I think the scale of these AI datacenter build out is part of the problem, that level of compute is really only useful for AI and Ai-adjacent loads like mass surveillance!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

isnt thats what PALANTIR is been trying to peddle to trump, its quite odd, more of a conicidenc we started hearing more and more about palantir since last year, when most people dint even notice it existed.

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on how much equipment is needed before something becomes a "datacenter". I don't really see a community hub being a massive supercomputer, maybe a small office or a room in a local library. I'd argue that a single server could be called a datacenter if it centralizes data, but I don't think that is the common understanding of the word. Maybe the word needs to be reclaimed.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

literally no one calls a single server a datacenter, and there is no reason to. If you did, then you'd just need to come up with a new term for datacenters. for what? Just use the term the way everyone else does.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well...

A data center is... A data center. So a central plave for data.

It isn't called Data Warehouse, Data Industrual Plant or Data Mega Shop.

So - if the place is... a central place for the town people's data (as in OC's cases)....

Wouldn't "Data Center" be a fitting name?

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

No, just a server room/rack.