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RainCaster

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2. We must quadruple utilities costs for data centers

Reply to TheFarseer (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 01:03 PM

Nov 2025

The billionaire owners of these data centers can afford it. We can't. They promised lots of high paying jobs would come with those data centers - where are they? The few jobs created for data centers are similar to security guards at the local mall. Low paid, hourly jobs with fucking near no benefits.

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