Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage

Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly.

The short version

• Wise up It's hard to make big sheds symbols of oppression, but the datacenter industry's having a jolly good crack at it.
• Its big boxes of semi-sentient sand are increasingly seen as satanic sandcastles , environmental disasters that inflict drought while boiling oceans.
• Their role as dark cathedrals of the equally demonic AIs has done nothing to soften attitudes.

What happened

A new contract of candour is needed between those who build datacenters and those who despise them. Shrugging off concerns, or offering shiny misdirections with no intent of following through, no longer works.

Why it matters

Without numbers that can be trusted, it's impossible to judge the environmental effect of using datacenters.

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