Comment by tokioyoyo
13 days ago
> It is unavoidable that the modern world needs data centers (how many is open for debate)
You know, I’m currently having drinks with a friend who has no connection to the tech world, and asked him about this line explicitly curious of what he thinks about it. He said “I have no idea why such things would be unavoidable”. And that is the sentiment of the general populace towards AI/DCs and etc.
Your reply is disingenuous.
I assume that you mean that they do not work in the tech world. However, surely they use lots of tech services in their life.
Do they stream film/TV on NetFlix or YouTube? Do they use social media like Facebook or Insagram or TikTok? Does they use email? Do they use WhatsApp or message to chat with friends/family on their mobile phone? Do they have "cloud storage" for their photos? Do they shop online using Amazon? Do they use Google Maps for navigation?
I assume that most adults do at least some of these things. Where does they think the servers run behind the scenes? Simple: In a data center. Now ask your friend to imagine his life without all of those things, because all of them require data centers.
What I'm hearing here is that it's yourself struggling to imagine life w/out data centres.
> ask your friend to imagine his life
As for friends, I have a number of friends not dissimilar to Jill Churnside: https://tracksweshare.com.au/artist/jill-churnside/
You know, not a "he" (as many on this planet are not).
and even programmers who are happy to live with home servers and local LANs.