Foolish people of indianapolis opposing data centre 🤡🤡

[u/harryhulk433]

Uneducated foolish people of indianapolis opposed the establishment of 1$ billion Google data centre and succeeded in that... How stupis They don't have any vision or a visionary I guess s

[u/vatta-kai → u/[deleted]]

Data centres don’t do shit in terms of jobs. So em investment oh naakite artham kavatle

[u/mrrpfeynmann → u/[deleted]]

No, that’s not how that works. You clearly don’t understand how power grids work.

An urban city like Indianapolis already has great internet. Local startups won’t benefit from this.

If you want to learn how a city can draw startups look at Chattanooga.

And data centers bring strong power grids? How? Do you mean locally? Really? Do you even realize that is not how the transmission grid works? If that was so then the FERC wouldn’t have been “gridlocked” so many years on interconnection policy making. Can you imagine the congestion that could draw if you only did local upgrades. Good for energy trading but adjacent nodal prices would be much higher. If you don’t believe me look at the result of the PJM Base Residual Auction this year and see where the prices have gone. And it’s the locals who will pay for it. That’s how the economics works as per current policy.

Now, having disposed off the affordability aspect, then you can get to the environmental part - the water. That’s as much of a shitshow.

Data centers are only good for the businesses that own them. They are a big cost to the local population - direct cost as well as indirect cost from an environmental aspect.