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Yes the Netherlands is dense, but a vast majority of it is still open space. You can see by just looking at a satellite view of Zeewolde. It's almost entirely f
by googlryas 5y ago
Yes the Netherlands is dense, but a vast majority of it is still open space. You can see by just looking at a satellite view of Zeewolde. It's almost entirely farmland.
- murat124 5y agoNetherlands is only behind US in agricultural export because of those open spaces. Of course there's money to be made and latency improvement would be great for EU but if the usage of the land takes more from the locals and the peoples of importer countries than it gives then it's not worth it. Company being FB seems to be just making this argument stronger.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoYes, let’s replace farmlands with data centres. We can eat server racks.
- cookiengineer 5y agoNow I know why there's a world wide chip shortage! US people eating up all the chips!
- googlryas 5y agoHow big do you think these data centers are? There are ~80 square miles of farmland in Zeewolde. The largest data center in the world would take up less than .1% of that space. On top of that, the farmland isn't necessarily even growing food. They may be growing, say, tulips.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoAnd your point is? Today it’s this data center, tomorrow it’s something else, then something else. That’s how it starts.
- googlryas 5y ago