The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown

Of course this would show up in The Atlantic. 😒

Good piece from The Atlantic on data centers. We don't need a blanket pro- or anti-data center policy. The better question is: what benefits does a project bring, who bears the costs, & how do we make sure local communities come out ahead?

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The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown Critics are inflating the costs.

This Atlantic writer, Elias Wachtel, begs to disagree. Maybe his time as an intern at Bari Weiss’s Free Press warped his mind? The commenters are not convinced by his lame argument.

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Datacenter & AI water use is overblown #ai #artificialintelligence #news #technology

tl;dr "In places where conditions are outlandishly perfect, the damage is only bad, not devastating." And that's before we talk about his assertion that Google and Amazon will make sure nothing bad happens. Shocking that a former Free Press intern would be in the bag for asshole tech bros.

New reporting highlights how data centers strain electricity grids, consume massive amounts of water, and drive up costs without providing meaningful societal benefit. #DataCenter #ClimateChange #TechEthics

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Was this by any chance written by AI...? 😅 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-data-center-electricity-water/687521/

This is the kind of drivel The Atlantic spews these days when it’s not claiming data centers really aren’t driving up electricity prices or threatening water supplies. I’m out at the end of this month.

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Critics are inflating the costs.