The promises of lower electric bills, good jobs, and climate responsibility, she said, remind her of cigarette ads she saw decades ago touting the health benefits of smoking. But Schlossberg isn’t sure the marketing is going to work. One recent poll showed that 73 percent of Virginians blame data centers for their rising electricity costs.
Nvidia seem to be trying to rebrand them as ‘AI factories’, because factories means jobs. Only once the data center is built it employs maybe a dozen full time staff. There just isn’t any work to do, especially in a dc that is just for one massive client with racks and racks if identical equipment.