housing for servers is in even higher demand than housing for people around here... AI is a hungry god!!! https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2023/02/02/data-center-loudoun-viewpoint-breaking-ground.html
"The application to rezone 57 acres from office to residential for nearly 800 units — 124 affordable — had been through Loudoun’s planning ringer until, in January, the proposal was formally withdrawn." I wonder whether ppl protesting the housing considered the default use?
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Reply · Jan 18, 2022@ionlazer @mayfer @Noahpinion @tszzl Lol, datacenters...... Please, take them, they're swallowing all available land in my home town.Reply · Jun 12, 2024@diogenes_watson 🤣 Ashburn VA is center of the internet & where cheapest hyperscaler servers are- probably means bots reading ur tweetsTweet · Nov 18, 2025imo talking about "data centers" is increasingly incoherent when there are different types w different needs. ai training wants tightly-coupled…Quote tweet · Aug 20, 2023@Navier_Tokes hehe, that's ALSO a big land use issue at least locally here in us-east-1 ... power is the biggest constraint- we need modern nuclear to…