> For people who support this kind of ban, I'd ask if you would support a similar ban on new factories for, say, car parts.

Car parts factory?

With the an (energy-use + water-use + land-use)/employee ratio comparable to an AI data center?

I did not know those existed.

But, yes. I think in that case, the right answer is "Yes".

A pro-corporate viewpoint, without calculation of tradeoffs, reminds me of Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk's blatant illogic: Bitcoin means green energy!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56844813

(For anyone not familiar with Bitcoin source, I can report that the green energy preference/requirement in the hash code is hidden very well. And that the non-benefits of holding Bitcoin in a third parties repository, or the micro-benefits of making a few transactions a year, are unusually minimal relative to the enormous global resource consumption. Not because crypto has to be so wasteful, but because the Bitcoin blockchain implementation has been an "entire-population-of-all-dinosaurs-that-ever-lived" efficiency lemon for most of its existence.)