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Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

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[โ€“] zd9@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

At what point are more radical groups going to take matters into their own hands? There are quicker ways to halt data centers, and it's only a matter of time until some people are negatively affected enough to halt them themselves.

For the record, we need to engrain these systemic changes to make it easier to change in the future, and avoid any actual violence or damage to infrastructure. However, it seems like Big Oil and their puppets in Congress don't want to do it the easy way.

I totally agree with all 200 of them. Apart from environment/climate issues, this will once again allow the US to dominate a market through reckless lack of regulation. In other words, on the backs of not only our planet but also people who do not benefit from it at all.

Just one example: one of Musk's datacenters runs on gas-powered generators! The air is so bad that people who live nearby are getting sick already.