@DavidJHarrisJr Tips are earned PERIOD! If my waiter sucks than they don’t deserve anything. However, a very respectful waiter that actually does their job than they deserve a great tip!!
Has anyone done any deep investigations into the other 11 jurors on the Clancy Jury?
Or are we just investigating the one man who pissed off a bunch of entitled latte liberal white Karens because he held his ground and wouldn't let a woman who admitted to strangling her kids walk free?
This is disgusting.
@MJTruthUltra Hell No. I’m for SMALLER govt! Let’s just get rid of income tax. You do know the more $ your precious govt gives you the more they can control you, right?
The irony of calling this “Data Centers for Dummies” while completely misunderstanding the numbers is almost too perfect.
Your entire 37% vs. 4.4% argument is nonsense.
That ~37% figure is the RESIDENTIAL sector’s share of electricity consumption. That includes HVAC, water heaters, refrigerators, washers, dryers, lighting, cooking, TVs and everything else powered inside American homes.
It is NOT America’s “data footprint.”
Charging your phone at home counts as residential electricity. The server your phone connects to consumes electricity somewhere else. You can’t take the entire residential sector, pretend it represents phones and internet activity, then compare it to data centers. Those aren't comparable categories.
And a cellular “data plan” isn't called that because the carrier determines how much “data storage” you need in a nearby data center. 😂 You’re paying for data transmission over a network. Data transfer and data storage aren't the same thing.
Then there's your favorite number: data centers are “only” 4.4% of U.S. electricity.
Yep... IN 2023.
You apparently stopped reading Berkeley Lab after finding the number you liked.
Berkeley Lab projected data centers could consume 6.7%–12% of U.S. electricity by 2028, and its newer analysis estimates roughly 9.5%–15.3% by 2030.
It also specifically identifies AI/GPU server growth as a major driver of increasing demand.
So “we've had data centers for decades” isn't an argument. We've had airplanes for a century. A Cessna and a 747 don't have the same infrastructure requirements either.
The golf-course argument isn't any better.
Yes, golf courses use enormous amounts of water. That doesn't make concerns about data-center water consumption disappear.
Water impacts are LOCAL. Source, watershed, potable vs. reclaimed water, drought conditions, season and competing demand matter. A gallon of reclaimed irrigation water somewhere in Florida doesn't magically replenish an aquifer being stressed somewhere else.
And here's the fundamental flaw underneath this entire novel:
“You use technology, therefore you can't oppose or question additional infrastructure” is a textbook tu quoque fallacy.
You drive, therefore you can't oppose a highway through your backyard?
You use electricity, therefore you can't oppose a power plant next door?
You buy food, therefore you can't criticize agricultural pollution?
You use water, therefore you can't object to an industry over-pumping your aquifer?
Come on.
You can use the internet AND ask how much electricity a proposed data center needs, where its water comes from, who pays for grid upgrades, what happens to rates, what tax incentives it receives, and how many permanent jobs it creates.
Posting those questions from a smartphone doesn't invalidate them.
The funniest part is watching someone repeatedly scream “DATA,” “FACTS,” “BRAIN,” “PRINCIPLES” and “PARALLELS” while confusing an entire electricity sector with an industrial load, confusing data transmission with storage, and comparing national water totals as though geography doesn't exist.
That's not “destroying people with data.”
That's discovering percentages and forgetting that denominators matter.
But the masterpiece comes at the end.
After thousands of words demanding everyone reject propaganda, think independently, demand evidence and follow facts, you conclude that a secret “Strategic and Special Operation” has been underway for 10+ years and everyone should “trust the PLAN.”
😂😂😂
You literally ended your lecture about independent thinking by telling everyone to trust a secret plan.
You couldn't write a better punchline.
“Data Centers for Dummies” was definitely the correct title.
You just misunderstood who the instructional material was for.
Women slap men and call it nothing.
Women abort men’s children and call it healthcare.
Women file most of the divorces, then demand half of what they didn’t build.
Women want the corner office and none of the ditch.
Women expect men to pay, then call the man cheap if he doesn’t.
Women kill men’s children and dare the system to punish them.
Then they ask why men stopped trusting them.