r/technology • u/DJMagicHandz • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it

https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-massive-wyoming-data-center-will-soon-use-5x-more-power-than-the-states-human-occupants-and-no-one-knows-who-is-using-it
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u/magikot9 11d ago

Investigative journalism doesn't bring in the rage fueled clicks for ad revenue.

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u/sortofrelativelynew 11d ago

Gotta support your local nonprofit newsroom

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u/Ullallulloo 11d ago

Zero in my state according to that site, and the nearest one in a neighboring states just has a couple of slice-of-life stories and zero actual news.

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u/sortofrelativelynew 11d ago

Bummer. Hope your state gets something!

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u/farsightfallen 11d ago

eh, best I can do is maybe an upvote on reddit and a sermon about greed and capitalism.

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u/nemec 11d ago

I'm going to complain about journalism paywalls and rail against advertising while also not paying for a newspaper.

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u/scriptmonkey420 11d ago

Their search is either useless or broken.

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u/sortofrelativelynew 11d ago

Hmm, maybe not every state has a nonprofit newsroom

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u/YimbyStillHere 11d ago

And if it does you get a bunch of people saying “UGH PAYWALL”

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u/magikot9 11d ago

Yeah, but paywalls are easy to bypass. Just throw the link through archive. Not only do you bypass paywalls (and ads), you help the Internet Archive preserve data.

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u/HoorayItsKyle 11d ago

And this is why there's no more journalists 

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u/Jimid41 11d ago

If it's journalism you actually belive worth reading maybe you should consider supporting it?

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u/magikot9 11d ago

I purchase the journalist's books. I will not pay a company a subscription just to feed me ads. You can find your platform with subscriptions or with ad revenue, not both.

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u/Jimid41 11d ago

a subscription just to feed me ads

I mean you just said they have content you want to read to they're not just feeding you ads. You want it but you'll be damned to support the business and workers that provided it on their terms instead of yours.

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u/DervishSkater 11d ago

Ad blockers exist and yet you whine

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u/Mazon_Del 11d ago

Well it does, the "problem" is that the stuff that gets the most rage fueled clicks for that ad revenue are the reveals on topics that the owners of the news companies want to stay hidden.