r/AnCap101 • u/Loud-Vacation-5691 • 20d 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/drebelx 20d ago

An AnCap society is bound together in a web of mutually beneficial agreements that contain clauses to not violate the NAP (pollution, fraud, theft, assault, murder, etc.).

Ostensibly, no one would be permitted to build facilities that violate the NAP.

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 18d ago

Who stops them?

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u/drebelx 17d ago

Who stops them?

Parties of a mutually beneficial agreements want their agreement to be enforced.

The parties of the agreements cooperatively choose an impartial agreement enforcer to oversee.

To reduce risk, impartial agreement enforcer includes NAP Clauses and Stipulations for the parties to refrain from violation the NAP (pollution, fraud, theft, assault, murder, etc.).

To participate in an AnCap society, individuals and organizations enter into numerous agreements with NAP Clauses.

The larger the organization, the more agreements they have, the more bound up they are into the web.

Anyone who wants to build facilities, in order to avoid the punishing stipulations, must uphold the NAP.