Pepperidge Farms must’ve met my dad a few years back.
Fuck that guy and fuck data centers, but this meme is misinformed.
The biggest problem with our current grid is power distribution, as in getting power from the production source to its destination (your house). We absolutely have production issues, but even if we resolve those, we still need to contend with the distribution bottleneck.
Most, if not all of these datacenter plans and include built in power production. Whether it is Google’s geothermal, meta’s nuclear, or whatver, the power production for the datacenters are meant to be relatively close to the actual.
EDIT: Let me be clear. Almost all of these dedicated power production facilities for datacenters WILL BE subsidized (or fully paid for) by local electric consumers and tax payers in the form of taxes, bonds, and electric bill fees. They are willing to do that for datacenters but not to upgrade our infrastructure (the grid) so that we can transition to EV’s.
Thats part of the backlash though.
The people, would MUCH prefer the infrastructure get updated for EVs, not just a single pipe for Data Center kickbacks to council members.
I’m not disagreeing with the sentiment, just clarifying that the grid, as it stands today, is inadequate for a full electric future. That wasn’t a lie. Clearly it is doable, they just choose not to because it isn’t as profitable.
Further proof that no amount of wealth can buy intelligence, taste, class, etc. Look at the interior of a lot of supercars for example.
As a Canadian, I am so sorry that Kevin O’Leary exists.
How many billionaires can the power grid handle?
At some point I think some people argued the electric chair was more humane than the guillotines. Not sure I believe that.
Pepperidge Farms brand is owned by the Campbell’s Company. Here’s an article about how they’re embracing AI.
curious that O’Leary doesnt want to build that DC in Quebec. I wonder why. You’d think he’d want it close to home, since it’s so good for the economy and all.
Who do these people think the angry mob will target when the electricity gets cut off?
o leary is the useful distraction from the actual owners of the datacenter in UTAH.
Remember when a bunch of people froze to death because the grid couldn’t handle a storm? I’m sure with the new datacenters it will be just fine…
Don’t worry, they’ll output enough heat that even when power goes down, it’ll warm Texas for months
Well you see, they’re using turbines that run on fossil fuels.
