‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency
I'm a big fan of machine learning. I'd say this project needs a lot more public scrutiny.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/10/new-zealand-first-datacentre-concern-locals-makarewa-invercargill-datagridOpen linkView original on lemmy.nz
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This article repeats the claim it's NZ's first datacentre, in the headline and in the article, but I think it might be the first AI one or the first of it's size. It's certainly not the first datacentre in NZ!
Having been inside many datacenters, this headline is incorrect or out of date
Lemmy NZ is literally run from a data centre lol. This map has over 60 in NZ, and it probably doesn't even have all of them.
It's just the typical quality of journalism. You can spot the factual errors because you know better: most people can't.
They'll be parroting whatever marketing drivel the company's provided them.
"NZ's first datacentre (of this scale | in this region | for this operator | dedicated to AI)"
The journalist just drops the 'confusing bit'.
Yeah I guess this has been a thing my whole life. I remember reading newspapers thinking every article I have background knowledge in is wrong in some way, so we really need to take articles about things we don't understand with a grain of salt as well.
More than with a grain of salt, assume that at least one assertion in the article is as inaccurate as this articles'.
Great. Duck the environment so a Singaporean data center operator can get cheap electricity.