>Go visit any location where cloud providers locate their data centers and you’ll see sprawling campuses of giant windowless concrete buildings surrounded by as

>Go visit any location where cloud providers locate their data centers and you’ll see sprawling campuses of giant windowless concrete buildings surrounded by asphalt and tall fences. These sit on land carved out of huge destroyed forested areas. And all of them require extensive electrical networks which also clear natural areas and break up animal habitats. Really? Compared to all the other space we use to put our human things, data centers are literally nothing. Insignificant. I'd grant you the electrical consumption argument, maybe but your point about their vastly destructive use of space is absurd.