Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk)

Facebook is planning to open a new data center in Singapore in 2022. The more than $1 billion facility will be located in the west of the country, according to the BBC. From the report: It has been designed as an 11-floor structure, in an attempt to conserve space in the crowded nation, according to Facebook. One analyst told the BBC it was another sign of the country's popularity with large technology companies. The new, 170,000-sq-m (1.8-million-sq-ft) data centre will support "hundreds" of local jobs. Facebook said it expected the building to be powered by 100% renewable energy and noted that it would feature a liquid cooling system that minimized water and power use.

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A one billion dollar data center

[rsilvergun]

and it's going to support "hundreds" of jobs? And I wouldn't be surprised to find out some of those jobs are in building the thing....

So anyway we're heading for a post-work world folks. Or at the very least another industrial revolution. And the last few times that happened there were decades of unemployment & social strife until either tech caught up or, more likely, we had a big enough war that everything blew up and had to be rebuilt.

Anyway, We gonna do anything about it?