Data center land use issues are fake - Andy Masley
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We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland
A few weeks ago I shared my axis of which data center concerns I think are most real and fake: I’ve already covered water use, water poisoning, and infrasounds. There’s one fake issue left to address: land use. Like biographies use their subject as a prism for the world around them, I use data centers as a prism for much larger but invisible environmental problems, hidden by our tendencies toward populism and localism that data centers offend. This post focuses on the ridiculous ways we use land in America, which (like most of our water issues) is downstream of farmers being shielded from…
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