• LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    if you’re the redhead on the left of this video with the really deep voice, we haven’t talked in a while and it’s ridiculous that i can recognize you after 15 years. i should call you.

  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    I don’t get how any tech companies think they will incentives citys when they have been shown to deplete almost all water sources wherever they are built. Amazon being a notorious negotiators of tax incentives, they are likely looking for sucker city’s.

    Edit. Also, what absolutely massive brain decided one of the hottest states in the us would be a good place to put a building sized heat sink.

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      21 hours ago

      Actually now that I think about it yeah why don’t they put them in like Montana and Alaska and stuff honestly you could build residential blocks up against them maybe even.

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        19 hours ago

        You could even do district heating. Use the hot water output from the data centre and sell it cheap for piping into appartment blocks for heating.

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          14 hours ago

          Good idea, but corporations arent usually in the business of taking care of towns or workers.

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          18 hours ago

          See now you’re thinking way too progressive. If its not raping the environment, you’re doing it wrong.

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          17 hours ago

          Too smart for capitalism where cheap > efficient

          It’s why a vast majority of buildings in the US are designed without the local climate in mind (ie using passive heating and cooling systems for that climate). They let HVAC handle making the same design hospitable for all regions. It’s the lowest cost design and build for the highest sale price. All energy and maintenance costs after sale are the consumer’s problem. Relevant podcast episode about how dumb our building designs are due to AC. It has some staggering figures i don’t remember offhand.