I’m a big fan of machine learning. I’d say this project needs a lot more public scrutiny.

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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!

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        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.

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      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’.

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        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.

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          More than with a grain of salt, assume that at least one assertion in the article is as inaccurate as this articles’.

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    Datagrid has approval to … remove a nearby wetland, an Environment Southland regional council reports show.

    Great. Duck the environment so a Singaporean data center operator can get cheap electricity.