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But the discussion is about the safety of systems being actively implemented. For now, people are required to maintain data centers. Right now, these centers are transitioning to high voltage DC. Right now the best attempts at fully automated data centers are in progress with unverified status. So, for now we need to keep the humans safe. Future data centers not needing humans doesn't keep the current humans safe. Thus, optimistic future speculation is off topic and not relevant to the discussion of human safety with high voltages.

People are tired of off topic speculation masquerading as relevant to real world problem solving. It's not a hate boner.

EDIT: expanded to make it clearer why I believe the speculation to be wildly off topic for this particular thread.



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