Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Fri Jun 23 21:35:38 UTC 2023

> On Jun 23, 2023, at 12:19, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:16 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net <mailto:nanog at ics-il.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> I view throwing everything into NOVA as being lazy. Throwing so many at one place isn't good for resiliency.
> 
> there's nyc and chicago and california :) (and dallas)
> but.. :)
> 
> The discussions in local news (in nova) seem to center around:
>  "but the noise!"

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.

>  "but the beautiful scenery!"

This one might be somewhat valid if it wasn’t likely to become some other form of warehouse anyway.

>  "but the water poisoning!!"

??? 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.

> 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)
> 
> If you peel back the layers a bunch of it actually looks pretty
> horrible for the people protesting:
>  "NIMBY problems"
>  "Our 'heritage'"
> 
> i'm sure it'll work out in the end, but ... gonna be fun to watch.

I’ll bring marshmallows, who wants to bring the chocolate and the graham crackers to this dumpster fire?

Owen

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