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!
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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Dave@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 47d
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!
luthis@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 47d
Having been inside many datacenters, this headline is incorrect or out of date
Dave@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 47d
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.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 46d
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'.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 46d
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.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 46d
More than with a grain of salt, assume that at least one assertion in the article is as inaccurate as this articles'.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 46d
Great. Duck the environment so a Singaporean data center operator can get cheap electricity.