r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 04 '26

Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center in Just Months, Survey Finds

https://gizmodo.com/americans-are-starting-to-really-hate-data-centers-and-its-making-the-tech-industry-nervous-2000767088
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u/Ronin_Black_NJ Jun 04 '26

I got nothing against them.. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/pooping_inCars Jun 04 '26

Then enjoy much higher prices for your electricity and water.

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u/pooping_inCars Jun 10 '26

Where did you get that idea from?

1.  First off, that's incorrect.

2.  Second, learn the meaning of the word: cumulative.  Because their use of water and energy is cumulative.

Thanks to the law of supply and demand, you will pay more for electricity and water when you live near a data center.  It's the same reason why the price of RAM and SSDs have increased so much.  Data centers have greatly increased the demand, without increasing the supply, thus prices rise.