Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Fri Jun 23 21:45:24 UTC 2023

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 5:36 PM Delong.com <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 23, 2023, at 12:19, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:16 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
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> I view throwing everything into NOVA as being lazy. Throwing so many at one place isn't good for resiliency.
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> there's nyc and chicago and california :) (and dallas)
> but.. :)
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> The discussions in local news (in nova) seem to center around:
>  "but the noise!"
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> This is relatively silly unless the local grid is extraordinarily unreliable. Unless the generators are running,
> you can rarely hear a datacenter beyond the bounds of its parking lot.

yes.

>  "but the beautiful scenery!"
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> This one might be somewhat valid if it wasn’t likely to become some other form of warehouse anyway.
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it's their 'heritage' that they are worried about.

>  "but the water poisoning!!"
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> ??? I find it hard to believe that data centers are big emitters of water pollution. Someone’s going to have
> to explain this one to me.
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there's plenty of, already available, discussion about how this is
just a trope being used instead of 'but our heritage'.
yea, it's just not at all an actual problem.

> there were, apparently, some actual problems with how
> prince-william-county did their re-zoning work...
> like, I think, one of the administration folks 'had a ton of money
> tied up in DC company stock...' (that person may have recused
> themselves, but)
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> If you peel back the layers a bunch of it actually looks pretty
> horrible for the people protesting:
>  "NIMBY problems"
>  "Our 'heritage'"
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> i'm sure it'll work out in the end, but ... gonna be fun to watch.
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> I’ll bring marshmallows, who wants to bring the chocolate and the graham crackers to this dumpster fire?

I have 1 lawn chair, you'll need to bring your own.

> Owen
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