These are purpose built single occupant DCs. It doesn't get any stickier than that. Google doesn't even visit their DCs when a server fails. They just power it off remotely and power up a warm spare.

Would that the City of Seattle take the same position on fentanyl.

Well, before AI, data centers were just another customer of the local utility. So, the "exact same regulations, environmental and otherwise" was sort of a given. That starts to break down when the DCs build and operate their own power plants.

The whole "Aunt Millie in upstate New York buys her power from a New Mexico solar plant" is sort of bullshit. When she turns her lights on, that power comes from Indian Point.

I worked for an outfit that considered this as a metric. At the staff meeting where this was brought up, I commented that this was unfair. I wrote mostly in C. And all my programs were one line long.

Because the parent(s) have their $100k+ office job and have to continue working when they get home.

The median salary is $51,000, with the median household income being $84,000.

The kid is coddled by society because 'we can't punish kids anymore because that's child abuse',

People need 2 jobs to make rent, and tech companies are profiting massively by relentlessly pushing massively addictive device behaviour and your solution is to start beating kids to see if it helps.

Next you'll be telling me that GIF isn't pronounced like "whiff".

It is called Model Collapse, and avoiding it is a hot research topic.

Put me down for "Gobbledygook"

If you punish companies for firing, you get less hiring.

Countries with inflexible labor markets tend to have higher unemployment.

Odd, the ones I have been in to do work on "my" racks, it wasn't uncommon for me to see nobody at all (not even a guard) the whole time.

Just row after row of servers doing their thing. Sometimes I would see the manager or a tech updating something.

Assuming that no plant ever goes offline for any reason and that there will be no other growth in Kenya ever.

That costs money. They were hoping the locals would foot that bill for them.

How many data centers in your immediate area? Are they the modern high density data centers with thousands of GPU units per rack or the old school 4U's in a rack supporting a few websites kind of data center?

As for employment, when is the last time you saw a data center that was bustling with human activity once construction and move-in was finished?

That was a joke! backhoes breaking fiber is part of the natural order.

That's why you should always carry a length of fiber with you. If you ever get stranded with no cell service, you can just bury the length of fiber in the dirt. When the backhoe guy comes along to break it, ask him for a lift.

Typically when using those tools, not every "issue" found is actually an issue.