sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoOregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needswww.kgw.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1424arrow-down11
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minus-squareAreaKode@riskeratspizza.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·3 days agoDATACENTERS EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF WORKERS!!! For a year or two, during construction. All contractors. After construction, what? Maybe a hundred people on-site? Why will no one think of the poor, starving, trillion dollar companies? It’s NOT FAIR that they have to pay the same amount as the POORS! /s
minus-squareBurninator05@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoDont forget that every last one of the construction workers will come from out of the area and are supporting families someplace else.
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·3 days agoNot a hundred. We’re talking a dozen on a busy day. Last time I was on-site I didn’t see another soul for hours.
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoThe “imaginary-never gonna happen-will use twice as much power as the state of Utah uses combined” Utah mega datacenter might, might have 100 people employed in it eventually. Maybe.
minus-squareoffconstantly@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoHow dare you! The data centers in Prineville supports dozens of families! /s just don’t ask where the reservoir went…
minus-squareEarlOfSam@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoChrist, Prineville Please tell me you’re joking. I’m sure you’re not, but it’s like slapping a Amazon Super Center in Drain.
DATACENTERS EMPLOY HUNDREDS OF WORKERS!!!
For a year or two, during construction. All contractors. After construction, what? Maybe a hundred people on-site?
Why will no one think of the poor, starving, trillion dollar companies? It’s NOT FAIR that they have to pay the same amount as the POORS! /s
Dont forget that every last one of the construction workers will come from out of the area and are supporting families someplace else.
Not a hundred. We’re talking a dozen on a busy day. Last time I was on-site I didn’t see another soul for hours.
The “imaginary-never gonna happen-will use twice as much power as the state of Utah uses combined” Utah mega datacenter might, might have 100 people employed in it eventually.
Maybe.
Not even a hundred workers.
How dare you! The data centers in Prineville supports dozens of families! /s just don’t ask where the reservoir went…
Christ, Prineville
Please tell me you’re joking. I’m sure you’re not, but it’s like slapping a Amazon Super Center in Drain.
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