I find golf courses to be a more effective framing. Even if the alfalfa is consumed by animals, it's still a part of the food supply chain and gives people the easy response, "yeah, but we need to eat, we don't need datacenters."

Google's 10.9B gallons in 2025 is equivalent to ~55 18-hole golf courses (200M gallons/year average in the US). Which provided more value to the economy and to you as an individual last year? Google or 55 out of ~15k total golf courses in the US?

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jaredcwhite 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The golf courses in my town provide infinitely more value to me than anything from Google.

And I don't even golf.

	▲	bryanlarsen 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You might not use any Google products. But pretty much all of your goods and services providers do. Google is providing significant value to you second hand.