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199 points angadh | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.429s | source
1. 01HNNWZ0MV43FF ◴[] No.44400008[source]
My facile policies would fix this

> Data centres require tremendous amounts of energy

Set up a pollution tax on losers like coal, oil, methane, and let the market pick winners like solar, wind, nuclear

> A lot of waste heat is generated running TDCs, which contributes to climate change

Pollution tax would fix this

> Real estate for data centres is a massive bottleneck and this land could be used for other purposes

Not really. They're super high density. A land value tax would fix this.

People will really put computers in space before reading Henry George. What has this country come to?