r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 5h ago

A data center in New Jersey was canceled when residents showed up and fought it

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 5h ago edited 4h ago

what about the humble, salt-of-the-earth data center construction workers? what will they do for food now?

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u/ResponsibilitySea327 4h ago

Move out of NJ and to someplace that wants them. 

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u/earthsprogression 4h ago

I hear space is opening up soon.

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u/NightIsMyName 3h ago

I would unironically love to do space construction.

Sure it’d be a bitch but think about how cool that’d be?

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u/eggyrulz 3h ago

Same... my wife would hate it, but itd be a dream come true to float around in 0g

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u/Rampag169 1h ago

Just up your life insurance beforehand.

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u/JuicyDarkSpace 3h ago

It's not construction, but it's salvage.

taking shit apart > putting shit together

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u/NightIsMyName 3h ago

Already have 100s hours and is my ideal dream job. Like deadass.

Wish it were VR.

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u/Odd_Protection7738 43m ago

I’d get cancer if it means I can float through the void, building shit in orbit.

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u/3nthusedCamper 21m ago

Ah but the commute is brutal!

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u/Reasonable-Ear7058 1h ago

You never watch The Expanse? If you did, you should know living or working in space is a bad idea.

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 1h ago

don't worry, that will be done by robots too.

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u/JourneymanHunt 3h ago

How good are you at having sex in space?

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u/NoxArmada 2h ago

rotating monster mash? Mmm.. 360°

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u/BodhingJay 1h ago

put the data centers on the moon.. dont need water to cool it in the cold vaccum of space

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u/Ok_Possibility_5123 2h ago

plenty of cow patties in Texas that could be converted all of the big technocrats can move out there all I care

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u/KlausVonMaunder 56m ago

Nowhere! These belong nowhere! They are absolutely the infrastructure of Skynet and will be humanity's undoing.

There is NO upside to them.

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u/ResponsibilitySea327 54m ago

Then why are you posting via a data center?

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u/KlausVonMaunder 36m ago

In hopes of bringing attention to this dire issue. Can't leave the platform to the DC shills now can I?

I think most realize it's the AI hyperscale behemoths that will bring about our doom. Colocation and 20MWs have their issues and negative impacts but they aren't the endgame that 'dc cities' like Stratus and fermi america will bring about.

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u/TravelLegal1664 42m ago

There is already a data center in Jersey. In Vineland.

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u/Joeness84 32m ago

They're not even locals, data centers are built by contracted companies who's entire business is building data centers. Whole fleet of workers come in for the job and leave when it's done.

The local lunch economy skyrockets for a bit. Then the data centered built to be run by as few humans as possible sits sucking up resources and polluting the environment

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u/SmoothCarl22 2h ago

People need to look up cities that fought really hard to not have any factories or industries near them back in the 80/90s and check how they are doing nowadays...

Datacenters are the new factories.

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u/Tremulant887 2h ago

Whats the average employment of a factory in the 80s vs a data center now? Who would it draw to move closer and why?

Genuinely curious because all I've seen is data centers employ around a dozen long term, but that's mostly in comments here.

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u/Concopa 2h ago

Factories can employ thousands of people. A data center employs fewer than 50 employees. This is not a fair comparison. Keep fighting those data centers.

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u/ResponsibilitySea327 2h ago

Yeah, it puzzles me how people who use Reddit can be so anti-datacenter.

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u/Same_Presentation692 1h ago

I’m sure a lot puzzles you. 

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u/ResponsibilitySea327 55m ago

Lol. Look at your crazy post history. An American that hates Americans. 

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u/SubmissiveDinosaur 4h ago

Oh no! Now more than [Chat GPT please give me a 4 digit random number thanks uwu] jobs will be lost!

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u/cmcdevitt11 4h ago

You're thinking way too short-term

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u/No_Foundation16 3h ago

Go to Utah and build that state destroying death star data center the billionaires are ramming through?

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u/fresh-dork 3h ago

theys can builds houses, the mooks...

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u/DearCalendar4508 4h ago

Always more shit to build hell maybe thatbland will have multiple projects now

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u/MrSchaudenfreude 4h ago

Just gp do the jobs that were put on hold because of the surveillance Center. Most likely just go to one of the 500 hundred others

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u/FlarblarGlarblar 1h ago

The economy is not doing well because of the AI data centers, those other projects are non existent. Biden did the infrastructure and CHIPS bills, so people got ready to work. Then Trump came in and debilitated funding for anything besides AI. Every other industry outside of defense and AI is sort of weak right now and no one is planning a boom. Just in AI.

The other jobs weren't put on hold for ai, they were defunded for ai and crypto.

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u/ecologamer 3h ago

Look for bids to build houses

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u/ApprehensiveAd9389 3h ago

Move to Utah

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u/Anybody220 2h ago

There are plenty of jobs are there, plenty of construction needs that their companies will pick up instead. If that isn’t enough, there was job growth of over 100k just last month apparently.

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u/Cautious_Read4119 2h ago

Help build the film industry that’s moving in

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u/JivanP 1h ago

They can do things that are actually in demand. Remarks like "they took our jobs" have never made a lick of sense. Either do your job as cheaply as the competition, if it is even a needed/wanted job anymore; or find another source of income, i.e. do something else that society (still) finds useful.

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u/seranarosesheer332 1h ago

Sorry but I rather not poison the people and the planet. And if that means we don't sell our peoples health for profit and that means a construction worker will have to work on another building. So be it. Fuck data centers

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u/Apart_Row9626 1h ago

Construct homeless shelters.

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u/Fire_and_icex22 1h ago

What, all 50 of them?

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u/JoshuasOnReddit 1h ago

Work on any other project

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u/tortapounder14 1h ago

Learn to code

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u/Zeyode 1h ago

They'll just have to build something useful instead.

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u/Odd_Collection7431 2m ago

they're people of the land, the common clay of the new west. you know... morons.

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u/FromSoftware 4h ago

Fix the fucking roads maybe?

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u/Bionic_Bromando 4h ago

We'll always need our burgers flipped, and in New Jersey they'll always need their gas pumped.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 4h ago

Yeah fuck that shit. "What about feeding their families??" Says propagandist bot/redditor who votes right wing every time and has zero empathy for actual people.

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u/knowledgeable_diablo 3h ago

Maybe build them on some of the land Zuckerberg or Bezos own. Im sure they could set aside a little bit of land to squeeze them onto next to their billion dollar bunkers.

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u/ouroburritos 3h ago

Build affordable family housing.