| ▲ | xboxnolifes an hour ago |
| There has been tons of reported frustration with golf courses in the past. So, yes, people have, and it's pretty consistent here as well. |
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| ▲ | bloaf an hour ago | parent [-] |
| I've not seen a single politician calling for statewide bans on golf courses. Its pretty obvious here that people decided datacenters were bad first, then went looking for justifications second. |
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| ▲ | xboxnolifes 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Go look up articles from mid to late 2010s. There's where you will find frustration about golf courses, during the time where water restrictions were being put on residential lawns. Do not conflate the more recent, more successful campaign of anti-data-center sentiment with the non-existence of a past campaign against golf courses. It existed, it just petered out. | | |
| ▲ | bloaf 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Look, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. Either water consumption is a problem today, or it is not. If it is a problem, then golf courses are today a better target for people who want to solve the water problem than data centers. If water consumption is not a problem, then the data center's water consumption is not a problem. | | |
| ▲ | bdangubic 8 minutes ago | parent [-] | | if we limit the number of data centers so that it cannot exceed number of golf courses in any zipcode in america than this is a solid argument, otherwise it is strawman |
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