Marcus Jones
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6,437 appearances
64 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
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My guess is if we shut down the internet for the next 24 hours, pretty much everybody in this room would lose their mind.
So as we go down the road and you consider your options, you have a lot of regulatory opportunities already at your discretion to set the rules in place.
as data centers are considered, I'd ask you to look through that and consider those options.
The next generation of data centers, many are using a closed-loop system for water, so water shouldn't be as much of an issue as it's been in the past.
In terms of energy, if you want to set up a data center, you've got to go to Duke Energy.
You have a $100,000 deposit, non-refundable, for a study to determine whether it's an opportunity for you to link into the system.
And then at that point, you, the developer, gets to spend the money to link into the system and become part of the infrastructure.
So there are a lot of costs related to this.
I just ask you not to shut it down before we have an opportunity to really figure out how to hone that and have a regulatory scheme in place that's understandable, predictable, and reasonable and fair for everybody.
So thank you for the opportunity.
MY NAME IS DAMIAN PATRICK WILLIAMS AND I AM AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND DATA SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
I have a PhD in the field of science, technology, and society.
And I focus specifically in the ways that AI and other technologies impact and are impacted by marginalized lived experience in the lives of marginalized people.
It's just a big, giant building with computers running 24-7.
You may have been told Charlotte needs this because it's about improving the internet, modernizing infrastructure, keeping the city competitive, and bringing jobs.
I would like to show you what's actually going on because none of that will happen.
The internet you use every day, maps like that other guy mentioned, emails, movies, communication, none of that requires any new data centers.
The internet already has a lot more space for us.
What these facilities actually serve are pop-up AI companies who need massive amounts of computing power.
That's a private business need, not a public one.
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