Post #3658547
2026-07-07 21:37 UTC
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social I just had a vision in which data center equipment became so cheap and efficient to build and run that public libraries offered web hosting and VPS services to anyone with a library card.
Like, if libraries were once private artifacts only built by the obscenely wealthy until people voted to provide them as a public good, why can't the same happen for data centers?
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@crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange 2026-07-07 21:44
@baltakatei@twit.social @qurlyjoe@mstdn.social Thing is, I'm looking at something kind of like this. Wouldn't be cheap initially. But it would be a completely solar/battery/geothermal data center, with working with farmers to install base solar and providing shade and free energy for them to boot. Once it gets up to steam, it would be a massive data cloud. Would bolster power networks by lowering baseload (read: coal, oil), local DC ops. I could see working with communities in getting cheap/free instances as well. https://infosec.exchange/@crankylinuxuser/116856561387239224
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@Rhube@wandering.shop 2026-07-07 22:55
@baltakatei@twit.social @qurlyjoe@mstdn.social Because they are destroying the environment.