Classically Educated Redneck

Left and Right fighting to see who can lose to China harder on AI

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@WomanDefiner This depends entirely on if the data center pays a municipality or rather a school system. As we all know school systems turn money into literacy regression. Instead when they fund parks, playgrounds, trails, repaved roads, and utility and infrastructure projects it’s more clear.

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

it’s time to build

[Zak Kukoff @zck]

Banning data centers is a microcosm of 2 of America’s biggest development mistakes:

1/ the local veto deference of NIMBYism
2/ the risk aversion that destroyed our nuclear power infrastructure

It took us 30 years to pull out of these mistakes. How long will it take if we ban data centers?

Once again…

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@EudaimoniaEsq I dislike the sun setting at 9:00 pm more than it setting at 5:00 pm. I also dislike the sun rising at 8:00 am more than it rising at 6:00 am.

[Habeas Corpus Linguistics @HabCorpLinguist]

Good. A bunch of boomers with too much free time shouldn’t be able to ruin it for everyone else.

96 people showing up to a meeting in a town of almost 70,000 people shouldn’t get a veto.

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

New York has about 1/6th of the number of data centers that Virginia has, but New York's electricity rates are almost double.

IT'S NOT THE DATA CENTERS.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@Carly_e5 The benefit a person making roughly 30k a year will replace 55 to 60% of their income, 35 to 40% for someone making 100k. And 25% at the earning threshold. And now you want to take even more? This system is extremely progressive.

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

The average American needs to know:

1) Data centers are the best thing that's happened to you since fossil fuels.
2) All of the alleged problems with data centers are either fake or solvable.

CC @dagenmcdowell @brianbrenberg

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Tokyo has a building whose entire job is to air condition other buildings. One plant in Shinjuku produces 65,000 tons of cooling capacity, roughly the output of 20,000 home AC units, and pipes chilled water underground to more than 20 skyscrapers at once.

The mechanism is called district cooling. Rather than every tower installing its own chillers and cooling towers, one central plant chills water with massive compressors and steam absorption chillers, then pushes it through insulated pipes beneath the streets. Each skyscraper just runs a heat exchanger. That giant fan visible from the observation deck is one building rejecting the heat of an entire district.

The math is why it wins. A chiller sized for one building has to survive that building's single worst hour. A plant sized for 20 buildings shares capacity, because offices, hotels, and department stores all hit peak load at different times. Central plants also run machines far bigger and more efficient than anything that fits on a rooftop, and they free the top floors of every connected tower, some of the most valuable real estate on the planet.

The plant generates its own electricity with gas turbines too. When the grid fails, it keeps cooling and powering the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building next door. Tokyo's disaster command center rides out blackouts on a neighborhood air conditioner.

The system started in 1971, before most of the skyscrapers it now serves existed. Tokyo laid the cooling grid first, then built the skyline on top of it.

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

every data center story says it uses "as much power as 100,000 homes" like that's a scandal. an aluminum smelter pulls five times that and it's why airplanes are cheap. measuring industry in homes is how you train a country to believe building things is a crime

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@HowEPhil TBF housing is very affordable in clayco near the airport with some of the cheapest rents in the metro. I don’t think workforce housing really matters in this case.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@NBtruthteller The value of medical payments inflating yearly offsets the depreciation on your vehicle massively.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@Lilly413657 @halfbakedlogic1 @downbadcomment Yeah, OP on Reddit looks like an idiot, I’m just suggesting that anytime someone makes over 600k it almost never makes sense for their spouse to work because of how marginal taxes and marginal earnings balance out and we do rich women a disservice by forcing them to work lol

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@Lilly413657 @halfbakedlogic1 @downbadcomment I dont understand why anyone in the top tax brackets spouse would ever work unless the spouse also makes at least enough to be in the 32% bracket to close the disparity over which of the two is the obvious earner. I get there are power couples but two salaries over 400 is rare.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@Lilly413657 @halfbakedlogic1 @downbadcomment Unless the wife’s after 36% federal tax plus payroll and state taxes, add commuting, add quality childcare and education, income is less than 50k; you’re still not even level setting all the hours she’s losing for anything else.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@RepNancyMace If you ran on this instead of property tax reform you would’ve won.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@robustus Make the normies figure out paying quarterlys and you’ll see a mass public shift against taxes lol.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@Sheetrockdust Definitely the latter. No PX accepts this kind of risk with active management.

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@AndyM1928 Who put all the heavy copper wire spools right next to the weakest column?

[Classically Educated Redneck @TheBIGJake111]

@lymanstoneky False, no earned income requirement and pretax contribution available though a cafeteria plan.