• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    It is important to anticipate the argument that they are getting the power from renewable sources.

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      2 months ago

      But they aren’t. What they could be doing is irrelevant, none of the big ones are running 100% (or probably even 50%) green energy.

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        2 months ago

        This is anticipating the arguments in front of the planning boards.

        I get that a lot of data centers use coal and other polluting sources of power. The problem is how that gets represented when trying to create local opposition.