There is a lot of “woo datacentres bad” in this article and very little actual substance.
A 4 million dollar data centre is tiny. It’s not gonna have AI in it and draw gigawatts. My work has an off site redundant data centre that’s essentially three shipping containers, and it cost them ten million bucks, and it just keeps a hot copy of the business data synced from a similar-sized data centre down the road.
So this very well could just be space for actual “legitimate” storage and compute for semi local businesses that want a backup far enough away so that when one burns down the other one is ok.
There is a lot of “woo datacentres bad” in this article and very little actual substance.
A 4 million dollar data centre is tiny. It’s not gonna have AI in it and draw gigawatts. My work has an off site redundant data centre that’s essentially three shipping containers, and it cost them ten million bucks, and it just keeps a hot copy of the business data synced from a similar-sized data centre down the road.
So this very well could just be space for actual “legitimate” storage and compute for semi local businesses that want a backup far enough away so that when one burns down the other one is ok.