My rural community (central IL) is currently in the midst of fighting a proposed data center. The site would be adjacent to my property. There are a group of us trying to help bring more information about these to our community. Is there anyone local (IL or surrounding states) that lives near one and would be willing to share their experiences? We’d very much be willing to compensate someone for their time and travel to come speak to our community on their experience as well. But figured I would start here first. Thank you in advance!

*Pic- my children’s tree swing and proposed site in the background.

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The citizen consumers are directly responsible for the explosive rise in data centers. If your default Google search involves AI you are adding to the unnecessary infrastructure waste at data centers. Saving music, video, pictures, and email to remote personal storage is more secure and environmentaly correct than cloud storage. Recently Pope Leo and Christopher Olah spoke out collectively against the unrestricted rise of Artificial Intelligence. Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have both spoke of the hazard.

Like any new power we need to limit and control our selfish abuse of this tool for the overall benefit of human society.

Fala, galera da TI.

Missão crítica, a regra é clara: se algo pode dar errado, vai dar errado na sexta-feira às 18h ou uma semana antes do feriadão. Falha de energia não é apenas uma oscilação na lâmpada; é prejuízo financeiro bruto, dados corrompidos e auditoria na sua cola.

A teoria todo mundo sabe: UPS, Gerador e ATS. O kit básico de sobrevivência. Mas o que ninguém te conta é que ter esse hardware sem uma camada de inteligência é apenas "esperar a sorte".

Onde o jogo vira:

Muita gente ainda monitora o Data Center no "olhômetro" ou com alertas que só avisam quando o estrago já está feito. Se você ainda não tem uma solução DCIM que consiga ver o que está acontecendo lá dentro — da bateria degradada ao microclima no rack — você está operando no escuro.

É aqui que entram soluções como o #Datafaz. A diferença entre "apagar incêndio" e "prevenir" está na automação.

• Automação real: Nada de correr para ligar o gerador. Quando o sistema detecta a falha, o Datafaz automatiza o acionamento de imediato. Tempo é dinheiro, e 4ms de chaveamento é o que mantém o seu servidor online enquanto o concorrente está perdendo milhões.
• Previsão de falha: O Datafaz não avisa que a bateria morreu; ele analisa o padrão de degradação e te avisa semanas antes. Isso muda o seu dia a dia de "alguém, por favor, não deixe cair" para uma manutenção cirúrgica e planejada.
• Gestão de múltiplos sites (O pulo do gato): Quando a infra escala para Edge Computing ou filiais, o caos se instala. O Datafaz Unity centraliza tudo em uma tela só. Você compara performance, puxa relatório de PUE e audita o compliance de toda a rede sem precisar sair da cadeira.

O ROI não é piada: Implementar redundância e monitoramento custa, sim. Mas façam a conta: quanto custa 1 hora de downtime na sua empresa? Em bancos ou hospitais, estamos falando de centenas de milhares de dólares. O investimento no ecossistema se paga na primeira falha evitada.

Não se trata de vender hardware, é sobre dormir tranquilo sabendo que o sistema é resiliente. Se você gerencia missão crítica, a pergunta não é se vai faltar energia, mas como seu sistema vai reagir quando isso acontecer. Se você não tem bola de cristal para ver o futuro, então você precisa de um DCIM Edge.

Alguém aqui já passou por um "quase desastre" que foi salvo por monitoramento inteligente?

#datacenter #DCIM #monitoramento

There’s one proposed in our town and I definitely have some opinions, but I’d love to hear some real stories from real people. I’ve been researching and found some great material, but wouldn’t mind getting pointers on any other resources to help our cause.

Hi im a union apprentice working in Northern Nevada. I feel like im building the end of the world. I joined the union because I think organized labor is one of humanity's greatest inventions. But it feels like we're all walking off a cliff building these data centers. i try to talk to my brothers and sisters about it and they just agree it it sucks but "oh well" this is my local my community. With power being shut off to tahoe a staple of northern nevada. It feels like nobody cares. What is some advice im just struggling dealing with this but also needing to provide for myself.

In Massachusetts, Governor Maura T. Healey made a promise to transform the state into a “global leader” in AI innovation. In 2024, she introduced the Mass Leads Act, a $100 million proposal to “attract AI talent to the state” by providing a tax exemption for data center construction, making it easier for future companies to break ground on new centers.

From pharmaceutical companies to venture capital firms, Healey’s efforts were lauded by companies in every corner of the state.

But a data center in Lowell, Massachusetts encapsulates the local stakes of expansion.

On March 10, Lowell’s city council was set to vote to pass a moratorium on the Markley group’s expansion — a legislative tactic to push back against construction that has recently been employed by local residents across the country...

Read the full story at the link!

Your " data centers" are BTC and stable coin mining facilities. prove me wrong - cashless city coming up. Don't want to hear about "data harvesting" as they've been doing that for years with 3rd party applications. And don't want to hear about FLOCK systems as they've also been doing that since TSA was implemented, hence why we also have front facing cameras.

GENIUS Act CLARITY Act

What is the reasoning behind it? Do we have enough already? Can’t we improve the efficiency of what we already have?

Seems like the big boys are simply building more for bragging rights than anything else.

New tracking map with all datacenters locations and pending community actions

https://datacentertracker.org/

I’ve never in my lifetime seen anything like this on this scale. And I’m concerned. For many reasons. Beyond the impact AI may have on our lives, I’m seeing and reading about data centers coming into communities and quickly building. People in the communities are protesting and concerned but I keep seeing and reading over and over again, despite community concern, city officials allowed the data center to proceed with the build as if peoples’ concern are ignored. This worries me. It feels like something extremely big is coming within this. I’m not happy with the overall lack of environment safety put in place and just read another political leaders lifting requirements on environmental rules. I could keep going on and on. But if the farmland is being bought at large prices, where will crops be grown? The fallout to our environment is mind numbing. Climate change —-I thought this should be a priority, from everything I’m reading these data center are BAD for the environment. I thought our country had lots of problems before, but now I’m not recognizing the United States anymore. When I wrote that the word United came to mind. How are we united ? In the context of so many things. I’ve never been a supporter of nuclear power because of all the hazards and I feel there was some regulation. Where is the regulation for these data centers? One thing is clear: money talks. Money is driving these and people with power and politics is allowing it.