It's wild that we are having an environmental panic about data centers — a carbon-free industrial facility that during ordinary operation consumes no natural resources besides electricity and water and emits no waste products besides heat.

@binarybits Panic aside, carbon-free is not true (plastic, steel, etc), and electricity and water demand is at the centre of the concerns. Not here to argue if justified, just to point this out.

@0xTosk By this definition literally no building is carbon-free. Doesn't seem like a very useful way to think about it.

@binarybits What definition are you using? Made of actual coal?

@binarybits @0xTosk It's the only way to think about it if you care at all about carbon