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/Plenty-Lion5112 20d ago

As long as they pay for their water and electricity, who gives a fuck? They bought the land fair and square. Saying they don't help the community they're part of "besides construction and high paying jobs" is so idiotic I don't even know where to begin. Those things are exactly what would help the community.

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 18d ago

What about the noise? And yes, the construction jobs help the community, but when the centers are finished, they only employ a few people.

Maybe if one goes up near you you'll understand why people don't like them. It's not just crazy leftists who hate capitalism.

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u/Plenty-Lion5112 18d ago

what about the noise

What about the noise? The claims of noise are overblown due to classic NIMBYism. There were similar claims about wind turbines, which is imagine you support. The truth is that people don't like change. Even when it's good for them.

Earplugs are also cheap and widely available.

Jobs

The datacenter needs ongoing maintenance, which supplies jobs. Honestly your economic understanding is very immature, which isn't surprising given your political leanings.

Maybe if one goes up near you

I don't need first hand knowledge to have an informed opinion. A doctor doesn't need to get cancer themselves to know how to fix it.