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Panic over data centers is wildly exaggerated — they use less water than golf courses and less energy than the USA’s fridges

Anti-data center activism has expanded from those directly impacted in their communities to a social-media fueled anti-capitalist moral panic about abstract climate change concerns. Meanwhile, NY Dems are trying to make the state the first to impose a moratorium on data center construction. But the truth is data centers’ resource consumption has been vastly exaggerated.