Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Recently proposed data centers that faced pushback were canceled or suspended at more than five times the rate of data centers that didn’t (28.2% vs. 5.2%).

  i.e. the data already takes into account that those data centres are more likely to be built in poorer neighbourhoods.

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  My hypotheses:

  1. The rich tolerate data centres more because they get more value out of them.
  2. “AGI soon!” misinformation hits both sides different ways: for one it means “we’re making you richer”, for another it’s “we’re making you obsolete filth”.

  No idea if either/both/none is true.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I'm going to go out on a limb here: Nobody is building data centers near wealthy neighborhoods.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Which is why the comparison is based on rate …

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