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  • Look, let’s start at the source. The measure in a small, dense suburbia town was to ban “data centers.” All of them. All kinds, all types.

    https://ballotpedia.org/Monterey_Park,_California,_Measure_NDC,_Prohibit_Data_Centers_Measure_(June_2026)

    I’ve been to Monterey Park several times. It’s nice. But it’s just LA suburbia. Very rational to expect problems from any building being turned into a data center to be right up on top of mostly residential areas.

    So, now you’re talking about not just making a leap as to what the commenter meant, but also that they were taking about something else because they were misinformed.

    I get not wanting LLM only data centers. I agree. Put those fuckers in orbit as far as I’m concerned. I actually love that idea. But data centers have been necessary utilities for decades. They’re not new. They’re not innovative. They let you organize online. They let you call you granny. They show you cat videos. They save lives, and other than very recent LLM needs did more good than harm in the grand scheme of things.

    I’m asking you to just understand that the thing you’ve only just heard about it used for lots of things, and has been around for years.





  • Fun fact: data centers existed and were incredibly important pieces of digital infrastructure long before LLMs were publicly available. You don’t even know what a data center does apparently.

    Nor do you realize that my comment isn’t about the virtues of data centers or what happens in them, but rather, having a massively under-informed opinion based largely on emotions. Hate for the sake of hate. That’s what MAGA people do. You’re really doing to double down and tell me that “oh, well, not me, I’m not like that” with a straight face?

    Downvote all you like, it doesn’t make your heart kind, or your mind work better.