alt Hacker NewsFirst of all, what is datacenter pollution?
Second, why is the article trying so hard to make datacenters out as racist?
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We're in a county with a coal plant and an oil refinery. Somehow people are more concerned about potential data center pollution.
Pollution happens when you don't have enough power in the grid so you will bring either diesel generators or methane turbines to make power.
Also noise is pollution too.
> Second, why is the article trying so hard to make datacenters out as racist?
AI Datacenters are classist.
Because of their negative externalities they will always be constructed near the poor who have the least political power.
Humans are racist.
So there is a strong systemic correlation between that group of disenfranchised people and people of color.
The most directly harmful impacts of datacenters are racist, transitively.
The pollution is the immense amount of exhaust from the power generation equipment being installed on site at data centres.
The article is from Capital B, which focuses on news affecting the Black community.