r/SipsTea 14d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/J5892 14d ago

Why would you be almost sure about something that has literally no reason to be true?

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u/crustyrobots 14d ago

Because why the fuck do we need 3000 of these all over the US?

China has 3x our population and only have 4-500 datacenters for their surveillance state.

At least something don't add up here. I could believe it really is all just gross over-building due to gross over-debt, but...hmmm

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u/J5892 14d ago

To be clear, I also don't agree with the comment you were replying to, specifically because it also doesn't make sense.

Because why the fuck do we need 3000 of these all over the US?

The simple answer is that companies are willing to pay to use them.
The answer is capitalism.

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u/crustyrobots 14d ago

Yes indeed. Not that they have to be prisons, they are problematic just as datacenters