You are engaging in the "but you participate in society" fallacy.

One can critique systems they are still interacting with, to suggest otherwise is just so incredibly lazy.

Not at all. The post being responded to completely failed to acknowledge any value brought by data centers to the general populous. That's disingenuous. To force the point: run me through the scenario where we turn off all the data centers. Consider how much more water will be have, how much less expensive will electricity be, and what other problems might arise.

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Ydarbleoj 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

But that value is subjective. If my tap water is brown as a result of a DC, I may not agree with your positives. If my neighborhood is humming all night because of a DC, again, I might not have the ability to see what you see as positive.

So, my take is that maybe the pro-DC side can do better at seeing multiple perspectives instead of acting like anything negatively said about DCs is a psychosis.

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heylook 5 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They also didn't say whether or not they like electric lightbulbs. Or hot showers. Or clothes. Or the wheel.

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mawadev 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Turning off the datacenters would be horrible. We would literally be forced to go outside and touch grass. I wouldn't want to live in such a world.

	▲	rpdillon 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What else might happen?