Opinion: Why Targeting Data Centers is an Environmentalist Mistake
AndyMasley · x · 2026-08-27
Andy Masley published an article using thought experiments to argue that environmental protests targeting data centers are logically flawed. He suggests that if distributed, tiny compute consumption by individuals is accepted, then centralizing this into efficient data centers should not be viewed as wrong. The article posits that data centers are 'the most efficient type of building we've ever created,' arguing that critics ignore the legitimacy of compute demand and the equivalent energy costs of decentralization.
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