For the ultra large ones. Yes. Because they are also business campuses. Most of the data centers being built are not $1B+ projects. Most of them are $200M projects and they are nothing except hotels for computers. When they have a single owner, like an Amazon or a Google, they follow a single homogenous operating model that is driven by a single corporate team focused on growing footprint globally, which means not needing thousands of employees in every single location as that would be unsustainable.

Thanks for finding this!

What? Data centers employ barely anyone. They are hotels for computers. Most staff on site are security guards. Otherwise there is a rotating skeleton crew of people who unrack and rerack servers.

The whole goal is to have as little cost as possible and just make money from powered silicon.

To understand Chamberlain’s achievements, let us first rehearse what can happen to a mind living in a totalitarian State. I mean a classically totalitarian State—you know, frank totalitarianism, where reality, officially, is official reality: whatever the State media assert. This can have profound effects, as William Shirer witnessed as a CBS correspondent in Hitler’s Germany:

“No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a café, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons.

It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.”

This really hit me in the feels. This is what I feel like being in the USA, and have felt this way for years.

:sickos:

This sounds amazing

What are we? A bunch of Asians?

At some point, the Axis is going to see the paper tiger is stretched to thin and they’ll act accordingly

Wouldn’t it have to be sundawater?

This would be wild if he got the US involved in so many conflicts that the whole house of cards just collapses

Oh really?!?

The Nobel Peace prize is not one of the Nobel prizes. It’s entirely separate

Edit: I am wrong

Time for some gusanos to meet some leopards

takes a bow

Oh ambiguous use of pronouns - will it never stop being so funny

Nailed it

Going rouge…

Edit for clarity:

:kelly:

Whoa

I don’t think so. 40k is now standard for a new car. You’ll have some cheap ones offset by some expensive ones, but 40 seems right.

The capitalists never forgot it. They didn’t need to remember.

I agree with you IF these people are on a tight timeline. I am not sure that they are. They have 3 more years based on the political cycle. But, this could be a timeline driven by the midterms, which is reasonable.

It could also be a timeline driven by foreign actors, or by economic forces.

My sense, though, is that things are not as well coordinated as the Truman Show and instead they make plans for various things and execute them when the appropriate trigger arrives.

Honestly, it could be true that both a) they got Kirk killed and b) they were waiting for it to happen before acting. They have a vast network of decrentalized right wing peppers and could have easily seeded this action out to them and just waited until it happened.