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I'm very intrigued by the use of "dark" as an adjective to describe conditions where humans either don't work (dark data centers) or need only functional lighting rather than mood/pscyhe elevating lighting (dark kitchens). Any other such examples?
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Isn’t the use of “dark” in the latter related not to lighting aesthetics but the fact that they’re off-grid as actual restaurants? ie you can’t go there & order a meal. Same darkness as the data centres.
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I've heard data centers have so few human employees they are mostly literally dark. I imagine dark kitchens are both metaphorically dark and also lit more like workshops (workstation level lighting in warehouse size buildings). But I dunno. Going off vague hearsay here.
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I’ve also heard the term “lights out” for the former. “Mitsubishi is building a lights out factory where raw material goes in one end, and finished cars come out the other”
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