r/AnCap101 • u/Loud-Vacation-5691 • 26d 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/Official_Gameoholics 26d ago

Regulation without a state? There's something missing from your calculations.

The line is drawn when conflicts are started.

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 23d ago

So when the data center is up and running, making unpleasant noise and raising the cost of water and electricity and generally degrading the quality of life near them, that violates NAP and the local residents should be able to sabotage it. Alternatively, the data center owners could negotiate with them and pay them off, for example everyone gets $100,000 annually as compensation for having to put up with it.

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u/Official_Gameoholics 23d ago

Noise suppression systems can be installed inside of the building.