Because none of the pollution or impact of these datacenters will ever impact anybody else, the heat knows every single one of those rural americans is a fascist and will exclusively make their lives worse, leaving those civilised people that live in the cities unharmed. /s
Literally the same attitude as “I dont care about climate change, if the sea level rises I’ll be fine because I don’t live near the coast.”
You can care about minimizing data center construction because of pollution etc., and not give a shit about people that it coincidentally affects in a more direct way than you. These are not mutually exclusive opinions.
If rural America weren’t such terrible people, I’d have pity.
Because none of the pollution or impact of these datacenters will ever impact anybody else, the heat knows every single one of those rural americans is a fascist and will exclusively make their lives worse, leaving those civilised people that live in the cities unharmed. /s
Literally the same attitude as “I dont care about climate change, if the sea level rises I’ll be fine because I don’t live near the coast.”
You can care about minimizing data center construction because of pollution etc., and not give a shit about people that it coincidentally affects in a more direct way than you. These are not mutually exclusive opinions.