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youre in edmonton, you can complain pretty directly to the government

but also, like, alberta makes a killing selling oil for others to burn. its still our carbon footprint and its a lot worse than that data center and cant be converted to non-emitting

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Can you elaborate on your comment?

I can see the link between it and the subject that I raised but I don't understand the point that you're trying to make in the context of the conversation.

Data Centres don't necessarily need to have negative environmental impacts .. they can be made to use water and energy sustainability. This is just a matter of regulation.

Extracting, exporting, and burning fossil fuels not so much.

Not OP but it looks like compassionate 'whataboutism'. The idea that, yes the data centers are bad but there is a much broader issue with the economic system involving the extraction, processing and burning of tarsands.

But it shouldn't be a case of lets do A or B, but A and B.

They aren't wrong but I can see how it can be seen as trying to undermine an argument.

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