Thinking about other industries like we think about data centers shows how impoverished the debate is
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Clumsy, arbitrary environmental ideas ignore the incredible complexity of the systems modern society depends on
One of my favorite images I’ve recently found is this aerial photo of Gwangyang Steel Works factory in South Korea (hat tip to Matt Beard): Part of the reason this image is so amazing to me is how easy it is to mistake it for a computer chip. Among other things it’s a reminder to me that outside of my little neighborhood in Washington DC, the world is unimaginably large and strange, and humanity has a shocking, overwhelming ability to shape things at the macroscopic and microscopic level to optimize the flow of material or information using these incredibly abstract methods of thought…
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