Comment by kube-system
4 hours ago
It isn't necessary to evenly distribute industry across the entire country out of pettiness.
Maine doesn't tell Iowa they should grow their own lobsters, they simply trade them.
4 hours ago
It isn't necessary to evenly distribute industry across the entire country out of pettiness.
Maine doesn't tell Iowa they should grow their own lobsters, they simply trade them.
I don't know if I get you're points because lobster farms are tied to certain external factors in a way things like data centers aren’t.
but either way, the argument feels very NIMBY: it’s not ‘no housing,’ it’s ‘just not here.’
so when someone say ‘let someone else host them,’ it really comes across as: I want the internet, just let other communities pay the environmental cost.
The cost of running a datacenter and the impact it has is also tied to external factors. The environmental cost is not the same in all locations. There are differences in land use, environmental requirements, power generation methods, and the downstream impact of all of those.