Fines do nothing. Blow up the data center.
In Mississippi and Louisiana this is allowed as long as the nearby neighborhoods are poor and/or non-white.
the locals need to molotov that shit
it’s literal self defense at this point because government has failed
Nothing but (temporal) confiscation of land and hardware would frighten them enough.
And loss of freedom through jail time and fines to the people personally in charge
A one million dollar fine? What a gas? That’s just the cost of doing business to them.
The article states that this thing costs $17 BILLION to build. A $1 million fine is less than a drop in a bucket here, that’s just giving the finger to the people.
Depends on whether they look at the fine emotionally or logically. Logically it makes no difference. Emotionally so many billionaires HATE giving up any money that isn’t going to work for them.
Emotionally so many billionaires HATE giving up any money that isn’t going to work for them.
And even more see the fine as a cost of doing business, and has already been accounted for.
Until we start jailing these fucks and charging them double digit percent of gross revenue (not profit, straight up what they take in), they won’t learn anything more than to keep planning for the few bucks (comparatively) they have to pay to make 10000x that.
They would like it less if it was $1m per day but even that if a tiny amount compared with the cost of the data centre.
One million is life changing for a petty human, but the cost of doing business for a data center.
The fine should be much bigger, the generators should be confiscated and any executives that approved it should be in jail.
Each of those 62 unpermitted has generators probably cost more than that.
I opened the article see if the fine per generator or just a whoopsie fee. Oh. MY. god. They dont have to stop operating? Somehow inspectors missed 62 generator and pressure was needed for this? Its a midterm election this should be all over the local politics but thanks to oligarchy it’s going to be forgotten by monday.
Nothing says »AI will build a cleaner, smarter future« quite like powering it with 62 unpermitted gas generators next to homes and schools. Microsoft gets the compute, DataOne gets a $1.07 million fine, and the neighbors get the exhaust. 🤷
It’s like fining Epstein $100.
$500 million dollar fine.
All C level execs caned for 100 strokes publicly. Top investors guillotined in public.
That’s how you make this stop.
The government doesn’t want it to stop, it’s in their interests to keep it going.
