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Anti-data-center hysteria echoes decades of failed green predictions

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Sigh: The crusade against data centers is exhibiting all the scientific acumen of the war on fracking and the climate-catastrophe con.

In this country, only superstitious backwaters like New York and California bought the anti-fracking line; the climate con had wider success that is happily now beginning to fade — but being proved wrong doesn’t deter the hysterics in the least.

They just ignore the truth and move on to new lies.

Data centers and AI will use up all our water, yell the greens. They’ll consume all our farmland! 

The fearmongering has already convinced Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign New York’s first-in-the-nation “pause” on most new data-center construction (and everyone involved knows full well that the state’s anti-scientific fracking ban began with a similar “pause”).

Similar efforts are underway in Pennsylvania; Georgia, Maine, Michigan and Oklahoma are all dabbling in it; the “save the farms” battle cry is great at making it seem nonpartisan in red states.

Mamdani beware — Cleveland’s forgotten folly holds a warning for........

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