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Waiting for the brigade of HN users crying ablut how EU regulations are "bad for business"

We don't want datacenters here anyway. They offer almost no economic activity benefits after construction, only low skilled remote hands and security. And they're a huge load on the power grid and cooling water in the area.

That is incredibly shortsighted

Datacenters are means of production, no different than factories

Without means of production, you are at the mercy of those with

No different than outsourcing manufacturing

> huge load on the power grid

Then build reliable power plants, ideally ones that aren't turned off every day at 10pm

But factories employed people. Datacenters hardly do. And whatever there is is low quality menial stuff. Moving boxes, bring told what to do by another low paid engineer in Bangalore.

And these datacenters aren't our means of production. They're generally owned by American companies and the proceeds disappear.

And yes outsourcing has been a huge negative for society too. It's the groups that have drawn the short straw from this that are now voting extreme right. That's what we get for not looking after the interests of our own workers.

Exactly.

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