Apparently the solution to people not wanting a giant data center next door is to put 130 smaller ones next door to 130 different people. Reusing old buildings is sensible, but if the selling point is dodging local opposition, that tells you rather a lot about how the industry views the locals.

I actually think this is a much better solution than the current strategy of bulldozing – literally and metaphorically – everything and everyone to build giant, power hungry datacenters that are an enormous waste of money and resources.

Old telco facilities are prime locations for datacenters. They already exist, along with adequate on site power and communications infrastructure, and therefore dont require destroying thousands of acres of land or alienating all the local residents.

Graphics cards are little AI data centers

…so maybe NVIDIA could just sell graphics cards to the public? Imagine that.