There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047
There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047
There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.
@jenniferplusplus what a great idea!
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047
There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.
The key word is "seize." There will be plenty of schemes in which the public is expected to bail out the datacenter owners, by paying them. Let's reject all those offers in advance.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047
There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.
@jenniferplusplus I'm thinking they should be used as part of USA-based call center infrastructure, and we need to bring all our jobs back from India, Pakistan, and other non-US countries. Those were originally our jobs, and we need them back. Data centers are the bread and butter of call centers.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047
There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.
@jenniferplusplus Capacity’s nice but where there’s not need we probably ought to ensure we aren’t just inheriting the power crisis they were aiming to create and exploit. Can these things be kept functional without hideous resource plunder?
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047
There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.
I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.
@jenniferplusplus I had an idea that the future where “the self-hosters inherit the Earth” will be underpinned by tens of thousands of local hosting cooperatives. I was wondering how to make it economical. I guess this is how!
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@jenniferplusplus Capacity’s nice but where there’s not need we probably ought to ensure we aren’t just inheriting the power crisis they were aiming to create and exploit. Can these things be kept functional without hideous resource plunder?
@cwicseolfor That is a concern, yes. I expect that if these things are owned and operated by the public, then the public's interests take center stage in that process. So, we get actual information about their resource usage, and we can cap the intensity of that usage to what ever is sustainable.
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