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Comment I live in one of these towns (Score 1) 238

Moved from out West back to a midwest state where the "college" in this public college town has lost almost 50% of its enrollment. The locals at the U act like this is no big deal, but the effects are pretty clear - many of the technical majors are now taught by adjunct faculty who are on semester contracts and get no benefits, and many dorms sit empty and mothballed. Meanwhile we have 17 legal cannabis despensaries in a town (without the students) of 20K. I guess this tells where everyone's priorities are these days.

Comment Data centers have a dirty secret (Score 1) 11

After construction, almost no one works in these things. There's a (small) staff for power, cooling, and security needs, but otherwise these things are managed remotely, often by people in different countries. In the meantime these structures use all the local power and water they can get their hands on, while the money earned from running all these servers goes somewhere else.

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