I suspect that the heated debate and protests around wateruse from datacentres is intentional misdirection by big tech companies to shunt environmental thought/discussion to a managed topic instead of the one they don't want to talk about and can't avoid which is carbon emissions.
It feels like almost over night we went from not doing enough but caring about carbon emissions and the impending calamity that they will cause to just... not, and and completely forgetting about them and what's about to happen. No real discussion about it in the media, no government policies, or lip service to the topic, just radio silence. The only real environmental discussions that rise up are about water usage near data centres, no bigger picture stuff.
It's really disturbing how a handful of people can just decide that this is the direction of the global economy and resource allocation, there's no democratic discussion about this or input from experts on climate, economics, or domestic security and self-sufficiency.
I don't really feel like we live in any close to a democracy in western countries anymore, it just seems like the locus of control is firmly outside of the average person, institutions, or even the moderately wealthy. It's just a few deranged people with more dollars than sense steering the ship into the rocky shore of a desert island.
It feels like almost over night we went from not doing enough but caring about carbon emissions and the impending calamity that they will cause to just... not, and and completely forgetting about them and what's about to happen. No real discussion about it in the media, no government policies, or lip service to the topic, just radio silence. The only real environmental discussions that rise up are about water usage near data centres, no bigger picture stuff.
It's really disturbing how a handful of people can just decide that this is the direction of the global economy and resource allocation, there's no democratic discussion about this or input from experts on climate, economics, or domestic security and self-sufficiency.
I don't really feel like we live in any close to a democracy in western countries anymore, it just seems like the locus of control is firmly outside of the average person, institutions, or even the moderately wealthy. It's just a few deranged people with more dollars than sense steering the ship into the rocky shore of a desert island.