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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 1d

New post! andymasley.substack.com/p/what-a-dat...

What a data center is

Lots of hyper-efficient computers in one place

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 1d

The two most common pieces of feedback on my blog posts are that they're way too long and they conveniently leave out a single random key detail that makes the reader take the rest less seriously, which seem to pull in opposite directions

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry not satellite, heat sensor footage

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 2d

Truly unsure about xAI's stuff in general bc satellite footage did show a lot more gas plants running months ago that xAI claimed weren't. The government there imposed new regulations on them too. My main issue is that some people try to use this as representative of the 5,400 DCs in the country

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 2d

From my recent TED Talk

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 7d

During a government shutdown it's important to remember that the monopoly on violence has been lost and we need to build elaborate horizontal mutual aid networks and use illegibility as a tool to prevent local concentrations of power and the re-emergence of hierarchy

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 7d

I'm pretty convinced that most confusion about data centers would be solved if we just started calling them "Big computers" because a lot of people seem to think they're something completely different from that.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 7d

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 8d

I think a lot of it is also due to inflation yeah, haven't done a deep dive yet but I'm worried that too many people are very strongly implying data centers are the sole reason for the rise

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 8d

Electricity price rises from data centers do in fact be real. I'm pretty worried that
1) The correct framing here is "We should be building out renewable infrastructure instead of limiting a new industry."
2) We're not actually building it out enough.

S @smalljaguar.bsky.social · 8d

@andymasley.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... might be interesting to you, especially this graphic:

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 8d

Yup makes sense, want to do a deep dive on electricity prices and air pollution, which are the two places I think data centers are harming local communities the most. Definitely important to compare them to other industries, but on electric prices especially is where they stand out

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

I need to reiterate that if you around saying that people running data centers are the most evil people in the world you should really take some time to read up on the general situation in the world

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

If you actually read the post you'd know that Loudoun has incredibly cheap residential water and the data centers bring in massive tax revenues for the locals. Zero issues at all

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

If you think the worst ghouls on Earth are the people running data centers you're profoundly out of touch with the real evil currently happening all over, that's a complete lunatic take

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks so much!

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry how is Neoreaction/the Dark Enlightenment connected to data center builds?

Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

idk I think the left *should* care, in a choice between different industries why not favor the ones that get poor areas the most public resources per what the community gives to them?

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 9d

Appreciate the feedback, why's the tax revenue part such a miss?

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