What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers?

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1. >As these companies and their CEOs look to secure steady returns, they’ve been relatively oblique about how their allegedly exponential growth—entailing potentially massive new fossil fuel emissions—would actually benefit the public. “You could make the argument that these new data centers are doing things that are high value. Society needs to have a discussion, though. We should have that discussion about crypto, about AI, and about computing more generally,” Koomey says. “The answer will likely be different for those different buckets, but part of the problem with the hype is that people are being diverted away from having the value discussion.”

2. Best comment I saw on another website: “Are you saying tech douche bros should not know which hand we all wipe our asses with? That’s just crazy commie talk!”

   edit: typo

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