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Zigurdtoday at 6:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

Look over here! Not over there at grid infrastructure and generating capacity, or noise and pollution from on-site generators.

The scale of electricity use in data centers is much more likely to cause disruption and the shifting of costs onto residential customers to pay for a new infrastructure and generating capacity.


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nostreboredtoday at 6:54 PM

wouldn't it be great if we hadn't actively sabotaged grid capacity and development at every turn

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loegtoday at 7:07 PM

You can be against lying about water use and for being honest about additional electricity demand at the same time. You can't smear someone for rejecting falsehoods just because you have an unrelated complaint.