Meta data center. Eagle Mountain, Utah
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Goodness knows we here at CleanTechnica have been doing our part in promoting the backlash against large, energy sucking data centers. We admit we permit ourselves a small smile of satisfaction when we report that New Jersey, or New York, or some other jurisdiction has placed restrictions on building a new gigantic data center which seems designed only to make obscenely wealthy people even richer.
Adam Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist and author of the science blog entitled Experimental History, which as of this moment has almost 100,000 followers. (My personal Substack has 164.) In an opinion piece published by the New York Times on July 25, he suggests the hoopla over data centers, while understandable, rather misses the point. Since CleanTechnica readers are all capable of advanced thinking, it occurred to me that many of you would find his reasoning thought provoking and maybe even compelling.
