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Jenniferplusplus
Jenniferplusplus
@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116076822859250047

There's a very realistic future where small towns scattered all around the USA (and other places, but there's gonna be a shit ton of it here) will find themselves stuck with half built or buit-but-empty datacenters when this bubble bursts.

I think those cities should seize them from the bankrupt shell companies that will eventually own them on paper, and operate them as public utilities. Ideally, as part of or alongside public broadband utilities.

Jenniferplusplus
Jenniferplusplus
@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@mayintoronto @owen yes, running these things as a cooperative, on top of or in addition to compute as a public utility would be ideal

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Blake Garner
Blake Garner
@trode@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 33 minutes ago

@jenniferplusplus blue owl capital is the AI ENRON

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Mat Wright
Mat Wright
@MatWright@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus easy out - DHS turns them into concentration camps

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Ertain
Ertain
@Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

Good idea, @jenniferplusplus

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decapitae
decapitae
@decapitae@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus Public renewable energy storage facilitues using iron air or sodium ion batteries - not Lithium. , thinkerguns

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sport of sacred spherical cows
sport of sacred spherical cows
@beadsland@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus

apropos:

"In July of 2021, Snupo and hundreds of workers walked through the gates and took over the factory. It was the most natural thing in the world, that we could go back into our factory, and fight for the chance to start over.

"It was the most natural thing in the world.

"There's a precedent for this: the Marcora law, which lets workers buy out their factory when the business is in crisis. And over the years, plenty have done just that, turning failing companies into thriving cooperatives."

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dQMZR64G_eM

Here, it would be community stakeholders, rather than workers.

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Hardly
Hardly
@hardly@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus

I’m going to get to work on a giant pin, right now.

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𝔇𝔞𝔯k𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣
𝔇𝔞𝔯k𝔴𝔬𝔩𝔣
@darkwolf@hear-me.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus the TV station I used to work for could NOT keep their copper wires. I promise, if the right meth-heads find them, they'll be wiped clean.

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James Fairbairn
James Fairbairn
@james@mastodon.exitmusic.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus I had an idea that the future where “the self-hosters inherit the Earth” will be underpinned by tens of thousands of local hosting cooperatives. I was wondering how to make it economical. I guess this is how!

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cwicseolfor
cwicseolfor
@cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus Capacity’s nice but where there’s not need we probably ought to ensure we aren’t just inheriting the power crisis they were aiming to create and exploit. Can these things be kept functional without hideous resource plunder?

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Jenniferplusplus
Jenniferplusplus
@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@cwicseolfor That is a concern, yes. I expect that if these things are owned and operated by the public, then the public's interests take center stage in that process. So, we get actual information about their resource usage, and we can cap the intensity of that usage to what ever is sustainable.

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BlueDot
BlueDot
@BlueDot@left-bank.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus

The key word is "seize." There will be plenty of schemes in which the public is expected to bail out the datacenter owners, by paying them. Let's reject all those offers in advance.

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May Likes Toronto
May Likes Toronto
@mayintoronto@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@jenniferplusplus what a great idea!

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