alt Hacker NewsI lived in Northern Virginia, data center capital of the US. It’s far from a “megastructure ghost town”. It’s nice. You should visit.
One stat that I read was that data centers comprised 3% of the total land in NOVA but accounted for almost 50% of property tax income.
Where did you get libertarian from? I EXPLICITLY stated that I was against powering data centers with the souls of orphans. Twice.
I like taxes. I like regulations. I dislike using the souls of orphans in industrial activities.
Not exactly card carrying libertarian material.
Maybe try reading the article to are the land sizes they are targeting for this installation.
Then check out the reason they are building these data centers: speculation for a hypothetical future where people can't afford compute hardware (due to this speculation) so they subscribe to a compute hub in their neighborhood, so that all compute is subscription based instead of owned.
I got the libertarianism (or what modern morons claim is libertarianism as cover for their hyper capitalist oligarchy) from the arguments you made, not from the things you claim. Same way it's diagnosed for anyone.