What about concerns about air pollution from unregulated diesel generators? Or using large amounts of water in drought prone areas?
A commenter below quotes a 73% annual growth rate vs. 23% over the prior decade.
You don't think that'd have an effect on people's perception?
Start paying closer attention to the news and make note of when facts are cherry picked to suit sentiment… and then ask yourself where the origin of the sentiment is.
No it can't. Regulation is already being flouted.
> Banning them outright is the equivalent of banning all immigration
Please be less obvious, this is just insulting.
So regulations to ban datacenters work, but for some reason regulations to ban gas turbines or whatever doesn't work?
>Please be less obvious, this is just insulting.
Please be less obvious. You failing to rebut my argument and resorting to calling it "just insulting" is insulting.
Yes, as we see here.
> regulations to ban gas turbines or whatever doesn't work?
Yes, as we've seen elsewhere.
Anything else you're not clear on?
99% is an interesting figure because that's roughly how much my energy bill has increased despite no significant change in my usage due to data center demand on the grid
I'm not a moron. I do know what I'm talking about most of the time.