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In a recent Ezra Klein podcast about data center backlash he mentions being vegetarian and says something along the lines of "being anti data center because of
by dieselgate 2mo ago
In a recent Ezra Klein podcast about data center backlash he mentions being vegetarian and says something along the lines of "being anti data center because of water consumption is hypocritical if people eat meat"
- tpmoney 2mo agoEh, that's pretty specious reasoning. If I start a business selling space water cannons that anyone can use to spray water at the ISS as it flies by. If these cannons are consuming whole farms worth of water in use and just blasting it out into space, you can still be mad at the water waste because you think that water could be put to better uses like growing animals for hot dogs and chicken nuggets, and not fleeting entertainment for people to have interplanetary water fights.
- dieselgate 2mo agoRespectfully, that doesn’t make a lot of sense.
- tpmoney 2mo agoSkipping the analogy and going straight for the point then, it is possible to be against something because you view it to be a waste of a resource, but to be for something else that someone else views as a waste of a resource. "Waste of a resource" is relative to what you think that resource should be used for.