Brutkey

Tor Lillqvist
@tml@mementomori.social

@vic_101@neopaquita.es OK so you can't explain how that very real problem that I obviously know of is related to data centres. And instead of elaborating on the actual discussion, you start calling me a troll. That is Twitteresque behaviour, sorry.

You apparently don't realise that I am on your side, broadly speaking. I just don't like using incorrect or misleading argumentation.

The data workers described in that article don't work in data centres. They work in offices. And no doubt are exploited. One type of job that is very bad for your mental health is content moderation, spending your work day looking through horribly violent content and deciding what goes against the standards of the company in question. Such jobs indeed often has been outsourced to cheap labour in third-world countries.

But still, data centres are not related to that. At least not the huge kind of data centres that are discussed so much nowadays in relation to the AI hype.

("Centre" is the spelling used in British English, which is what people who don't live in the US usually use.)

vic-tor-menta
@vic_101@neopaquita.es

@tml@mementomori.social

So your whole argument is centered on your definition of a data center.

What word should I use instead?


Tor Lillqvist
@tml@mementomori.social

@vic_101@neopaquita.es Yes, that was literally the detail that I wanted to point out, that talking about "data centers in central Africa" is misleading.

Just say "inhumane work performed by content moderators in Africa", for instance? Why the need to specify "Central" Africa?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa

For instance Kenya is not usually counted as being in Central Africa, and the work done by content moderators in Kenya has been much in the news lately:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-facebook-moderators-in-kenya-are-taking-legal-action