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Massive data centers in Queensland and Northern Territory criticized as 'dumb'

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The construction of massive data centers in Queensland and the Northern Territory has been criticized as an extremely poor decision. The primary concerns raised are the impracticality of cooling these facilities year-round and the resulting high latency. This initiative is viewed as a wasteful expenditure of money by the proponents. AI

RANK_REASON The item expresses strong negative opinions about a proposed infrastructure project without providing concrete details or citing credible sources, fitting the 'meme' bucket for unsubstantiated and opinionated content.

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Massive data centers in Queensland and Northern Territory criticized as 'dumb'

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Building fuck off large data centers, bigger than anything we have seen in this country, in Queensland and the Northern Territory, is about as dumb as building

    Building fuck off large data centers, bigger than anything we have seen in this country, in Queensland and the Northern Territory, is about as dumb as building them in space. Cooling will be shit house all year round and crap arse latency. Dumbest idea ever. But go for it #techbr…

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