alt Hacker NewsAs we all know, agricultural areas use much less resources and are generally great for the environment. (Yes, this is sarcasm. See also [0], which is US-centric but still relevant.)
[0]: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-center-land-use-issues-ar...
EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm all for NOT building datacenters in nature that's worth preserving, or near residential areas where other areas would be fine. Farmland, don't care.
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joe_mamba • today at 2:10 PM
Yeah agriculture is bad for the environment, but at least it feeds us to keep us alive, so we can say it's worth it. Datacenters don't.
They don't even create that many jobs like a factory for instance so we can say the mass employment offsets the environmental damage.
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Yeah, but they do produce food which data centers do not. This is an odd argument to make.