alt Hacker NewsThe interesting thing about the anecdote wasn't the timing. It was that there was no reason to build a data center there but they felt compelled to make it their top priority.
> especially when small towns are so easily exploited due to income and infrastructure.
Small, remote towns without electricity or data connections are not easily exploited for data centers.
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Terr_ • yesterday at 5:49 PM
I don't think anyone's talking about towns where electricity is absent or expensive.
Instead it's locations that begin with cheap electricity (attracting the datacenter) but the residents fear a significant increase in electricity costs with no local economic benefits to offset it.
jmye • yesterday at 5:59 PM
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Are we really expecting small town residents to have sophisticated enough prediction powers to know if a bigco company might target their town for a data center build? What's the cost of a false negative vs. a false positive for them? Better safe than sorry applies in spades here.