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jnwatsonyesterday at 11:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

A meeting to get a lamp post change is exactly how progress stops. It is why we can't build anything in US and it costs a billion dollars per mile of high speed rail.


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defrosttoday at 12:35 AM

A data centre isn't a lamp post.

_DeadFred_today at 1:03 AM

Communities passed and paid bonds to have water hookusp. Built infrastructure. They should have a say in who gets access and why. There are plenty of places datacenters could build without hassle, but they want access to readymade infra, and that comes with a reasonable tradeoff.

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