Original comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1uyyywv/comment/oy3cgd7/
Trees vs. Data Centers
Photo 1: Memphis, TN (top)
Photo 2: Sandston, VA
Photo 3: Abilene, Texas
Photo 4: New Albany, OH
Photo 5: Fayetteville, GA
Summer vs winter picture, not a very honest take
It would look the same for any commercial building - a warehouse, shopping center (would be even worse), etc.
No need to be disingenuous, it just weakens the argument and gives someone who disagrees with you valid ammunition.
Destroying a forest area for a concrete jungle is never a good thing
I guess the point would be what does the local area get in exchange for losing their forest?
A lot of other developments at least provide the local populace some service or jobs. These are just “give me your land, your power, and water and we will use it to advance our business interests and do nothing for the locals”, oh and btw, give us a tax break for the privilege of having us build a datacenter in your area.
Now I’m being bombarded by ads saying ‘um, actually datacenters give you tons of permanent jobs and makes power cheaper’, so they are just flat out lying instead of actually doing anything to make it worth the local community. Well, except key people on local town councils who somehow end up with NDAs forbidding them from disclosing what conversations they are having with these developers…
How so? Not like the data center will wilted away after the winter and trees grow back on spring.
Housing developments and apartment blocks are built on former forests in a similar timeframe too
At least here in the US the people arguing against data centers are also against housing developments and want to reduce urban sprawl (by say tearing down all the empty malls and building apartments there for example). At least that’s what it seems like to me, someone against the never ending suburbia.
Same