I’m not discounting you feeling this way but this argument feels performative or virtue signaling in the same way I’ve had to deal with people making the same argument about “I don’t have kids because children ruin the planet, we all should have less kids”. There are so many “what about”s here that unless the person making the argument is living in tent sustainably growing their own food that it doesn’t feel like it’s intellectually honest.

> I’m not discounting you feeling this way

proceeds to discount parent comment with handwavey argumentation

There’s actually a humongous range of ecological impact between tent and data center.