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Comment by thinkingtoilet

2 hours ago

Yeah, but they do produce food which data centers do not. This is an odd argument to make.

Only a very small fraction of farmland produces food we directly eat. The OP's linked article has a great illustration of that.

We already produce far more food than we need. The amount of land in the US used for corn ethanol production alone is the size of a medium European country.

Data centers are not displacing food. That argument is disingenuous. Even in Italy agricultural land goes unused because of low demand.