> You’re missing the trees for the forest. Pointing to a single example and trying to pull it apart while ignoring the fact that it’s not a single issue, nor is it a single instance that is causing people to push back

I don't know, I'm old enough to have seen a lot of public outrage against lots of stuff. It seems like it was substantive, but actually turned out to just be a trend. Obviously, it's not a strict dichotomy. It doesn't have to be either or. There can be elements of both.

But there are thousands of data centers in the world. And to my knowledge, very few people complained about them over the last twenty years. Now we're adding more, and of course again, there could be legitimate reasons for concern, but the outcry seems to be about 1000x higher, for a few hundred extra data centers, than the outcry for the first thousand extra data centers.

And that, to me, is evidence of trendiness.

It reminds me of how in 2012, so many people I knew were up in arms about Joseph Kony. And their outrage was legitimate. But by 2014, no one talked about it anymore. And if I asked them today, they probably wouldn't even remember him.