Echo the other commenter, wow this dude can write.

It’s sad, I noticed this too. I excitedly clicked a Hank Green video about energy and water usage on datacenters and was SUPER disappointed in it. I’ve worked in energy generation as an engineer for a while, and some of the takes in that video were so obviously big tech’s doomerism rhetoric

Automation engineer here who does a lot of SCADA

There are soooo many good ways to securely monitor stuff from home. But especially in critical infrastructure it’s just usually air gapped which is unbeatable in cyber security.

Tours of any local facility are super cool! I find it all so interesting, seeing how the things we use work!