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Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton asks for federal investigation into China’s role in data center development (www.kark.com)
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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Never mind China, people don't want data centers because they take so much increasingly precious water, make electric bills higher, are noisy, pollute the water, and raise the ambient temperature.

All this for facilities that are designed to take away human jobs. They are lose/lose deals for the working class.

I will say that for free but if China will pay me that's great too.

[–] gemakey@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

So what desirable outcome is there for them to build these massive atrocities to take human jobs for what? Humans who can't afford them because they have no jobs? It doesn't make sense.