Hacker News Reader

this whatsboutism comment reminds me of ralph wiggum ‘im helping’

the venn diagram of people supporting golf courses but objecting to data centers has a much smaller overlap than you think

View on HN

It's not whataboutism. The point is it's a tradeoff. Would the whiners shut up if Facebook bought and shut down the local golf course? Probably not. Google remediated a flood-irrigated alfalfa farm (really!) near Las Vegas (I am not making this up) to zero out the water demands of their Henderson datacenter. This did not prevent the national press from making hay (did you see what I did there?)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com