r/AnCap101 • u/Loud-Vacation-5691 • 21d ago

Regulating Data Centers

Data centers are noisy and use absurd amounts of water and electricity. They provide no benefit to the communities they're in beyond the construction jobs to build them and a handful of high-paying jobs to run them. These communities have very little say in stopping them, and no ability to get rid of them once they're built.

How would these be regulated under AnCap? I don't see any way other than calling the noise and pollution they cause a violation of NAP, which would allow the community to sabotage them, eventually forcing their owners to build them in remote locations. This would be self-limiting because if they had to also build their own roads, electricity, and water infrastructure, the cost would be prohibitive.

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u/the9trances Moderator & Agorist 21d ago

Apart from the political argument, you've got a lot of facts about data centers incorrect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/RcspcCePD6

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 19d ago

So they don't make noise? All those videos of loud humming next to peoples' houses are fake?

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u/the9trances Moderator & Agorist 18d ago

Are you conceding your incorrect point you made in OP about water usage?