sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoIn first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenterswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square92linkfedilinkarrow-up1963arrow-down19
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minus-squarestickyprimer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·3 days agoI could see a reasonable statewide zoning law but a statewide ban? You’ve got to be kidding. Tech is one of California’s biggest industries. We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?
minus-squareBlackAura@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days ago We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else? As is tradition.
minus-squarestickyprimer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 days agoYup. Also traditional: the blind hypocrisy of using a tech product that routes through a data center to call for a total ban on data centers.
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 days ago“blind hypocrisy” Really, this is your argument? People are hypocrites for using tech to ban tech? You really phoned that one in.
minus-squarestickyprimer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoAgreed - it was so obvious it didn’t take much work to name it.
I could see a reasonable statewide zoning law but a statewide ban? You’ve got to be kidding. Tech is one of California’s biggest industries. We’re just going to NIMBY the problem onto someone else?
As is tradition.
Yup. Also traditional: the blind hypocrisy of using a tech product that routes through a data center to call for a total ban on data centers.
“blind hypocrisy”
Really, this is your argument? People are hypocrites for using tech to ban tech? You really phoned that one in.
Agreed - it was so obvious it didn’t take much work to name it.