alt Hacker NewsWhy go through the effort when such work has already been done?
https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/
Not being negative. But isn’t there existing highly reliable data that already exists for this?
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kennywinker • today at 2:20 AM
To document the impacts and organize people against the harms.
jeffbee • today at 1:45 AM
Giving equal weight to real data centers and 1000sqft telco switches on this map is sort of misleading.
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cowsandmilk • today at 2:04 AM
I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?
jagged-chisel • today at 1:46 AM
It puts a number greater than 4,000 in the middle of the US. Maybe that’s reliable, maybe it’s accurate, but it’s certainly not useful.
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The page mentioned in the article seems to focus on "AI Data Centers". Looks like it's a much smaller set of hyperscale stuff, not every telco building with a bunch of racks.
However, "user reports" on that map clearly conflate the two, also reporting small, established sites in urban areas, etc.