6/15/2026 at 8:37:30 PM
We had this law for three years. What did it actually do?by JumpCrisscross
6/15/2026 at 9:30:03 PM
It told the government how to go about building its own data centers. Which meant things like deciding what to build, where, what environmental impacts to consider, etc.by jfengel
6/15/2026 at 9:59:08 PM
Do we have evidence of what it did? The benefits? The costs? For sunsetting legislation, we should be able to point to something more concrete than vibes being off for datacenters in general.by JumpCrisscross
6/16/2026 at 12:39:24 AM
Not sure what environmental impacts you expect to see the policy to have achieved in three years, but I'm sure we won't truly know the impact until the next future administration that supports environmental science.by iAMkenough
6/16/2026 at 1:51:13 AM
> Not sure what environmental impacts you expect to see the policy to have achieved in three yearsI’m asking for evidence of any impact. Was something built or not built? Was the design modified? Did it become more efficient, even if just on paper?
If the law literally did nothing we can measure for three years, I’m not sure it’s worth the political capital to keep alive.
by JumpCrisscross
6/16/2026 at 6:15:42 AM
I'm not sure you can draw a conclusion like that, especially given that roughly half that time has been under the Trump administration, which really doesn't care about regulations on what it does.If the policy is about what to do and not to do when building a new datacenter, I could easily believe that the government...didn't actually build any new datacenters during the three years it was in effect, so it hasn't had a chance to have any impact.
by danaris
6/16/2026 at 3:49:32 AM
Added costs (waste). Created government jobs.by CGMthrowaway