The Catskills have those environmental protection laws because they are the water source for NYC. It would be very stupid to relax those to build data centers.

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aynyc an hour ago | parent [-]

NYC owns those lands for water. ADK has forever wild in NYS constitution. They are not gonna get relax for data center because they discharge water and noise and add significant infrastructure change.

Solar farm on the other hand might go up tho.

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giantg2 an hour ago | parent [-]

Replacing natural lands with solar farms is one of the stupidest things I've seen. They're doing that on some state parks near me.

	▲	sanex 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah why do I have to pay to get it in my roof when a solar company will buy land to put up solar cells. Just put it on my roof instead. I won't complain.
	▲	cucumber3732842 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>Replacing natural lands with solar farms is one of the stupidest things I've seen "Says here[1] on this study published by university lab funded by a consortium of the same interests that develop the solar that this is fine" -smarmy HN linkposters [1] <link to study that doesn't even support my thesis but you can't tell because it's behind a paywall>