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1 posted on 06/19/2026 10:49:23 PM PDT by Jonty30
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“Please choose responsible landscaping alternatives”

If you hate data centers as much as I do, then bamboo becomes an extremely responsible landscaping alternative!


2 posted on 06/19/2026 10:58:05 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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3 posted on 06/19/2026 10:58:08 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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oh sorry i see the image now.

Did you see the article with neighbors complaining about 24 noise from data center


4 posted on 06/19/2026 11:00:01 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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I am afraid that a lot of people will not realize that this is a joke. Planting bamboo has no negative consequences for AI Data Centers even though it can be a real pain to get rid of.


6 posted on 06/19/2026 11:09:29 PM PDT by fireman15
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9 posted on 06/20/2026 12:01:38 AM PDT by dforest
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Some new consumer computers can already run Large Language Models (LLMs) on them. I predict that within a few years, personal computers with massive GPUs and massive amounts of RAM will be readily available to the public, making most AI data centers moot.

Because of this inevitability, I think that the vast majority of AI data centers currently being proposed won't even be built or will be abandoned before completion.

10 posted on 06/20/2026 12:15:19 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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Planting bamboo will attract pandas to the area.


11 posted on 06/20/2026 12:23:41 AM PDT by teacherwoes (Our Lady of China, pray for us)
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Posted on social media that uses data centers. The Internet would not exist without them.

Talk about a stupid people.


12 posted on 06/20/2026 12:33:01 AM PDT by CodeToad
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And don’t you eat that yellow snow.


14 posted on 06/20/2026 1:11:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel first!)
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Is kudzu a better choice?


15 posted on 06/20/2026 1:51:01 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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Does this mean i cant build my data centers in vietnam?


17 posted on 06/20/2026 2:05:30 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
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It’s true. When I lived in Panama, one of my landlord’s neighbors chose to build a “privacy fence” of bamboo. The neighbor later sold the property and my landlord tried to uproot the bamboo which had begun encroaching on his land. He had to dig under the topsoil and pull out the roots which were feisty and wouldn’t uproot easily.


20 posted on 06/20/2026 2:46:07 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Talarico is Italian for "heretic".)
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Generally I'm opposed to NIMBYism because it usually represents those well placed in society leveraging their position to push up costs for everyone else: it's a form of rent-seeking.

But the AI buildout is showing the massive corruption of our political system from the national level all the way down to the neighborhood. Decades of warnings about CO2 emissions, nuclear power, etc., are immediately tossed aside when the tech bros throw $1.5 trillion at a problem and any concern about power, water use or noise at the local level are immediately overridden by the developer cash flashed in front of local officials.

It's a wonder to behold how fast infrastructure can be built when all that private cash sloshes around while public projects and normal industrial development are hamstrung by environmental permitting, political money laundering, etc., etc.

23 posted on 06/20/2026 3:51:38 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Are AI Data Centers well-shielded against the level of directed EMP that can be produced by home hobbyists with a modicum of knowledge of explosives and electronics?

Asking for a friend.


24 posted on 06/20/2026 4:10:47 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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Must be Chinese bamboo.

Another form of biological warfare.

😂


27 posted on 06/20/2026 4:22:54 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Planting bamboo is hardly a cogent argument against data centers.


41 posted on 06/20/2026 5:54:11 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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This ingenious plan was no doubt hatched by the children on the 1960’s genius political science students who thought that children’s magnets 500 feet away would erase defense department computer core memories.


46 posted on 06/20/2026 6:32:22 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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A little bamboo, some barbed wire and it looks like a firebase in Quảng Trị .
58 posted on 06/20/2026 8:53:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Bamboo provides also provides a place for the last remaining hold-out Japanese soldiers to hide.


64 posted on 06/20/2026 9:10:07 AM PDT by x
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We have a stand of it down the side of our yard. Its not bad but you do have to keep up with thinning it out. It will spread.


65 posted on 06/20/2026 9:18:45 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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