[zephen]

> The economy is not zero sum.

This is true.

But it's not always positive sum, either.

> Megacorporations making profit is not some evil that needs to be stopped.

Externalities are a thing. It's not about the profit per se, but about how (a) the making of that profit might negatively impact others, and (b) the deployment of that profit in pursuit of rent-seeking and other antisocial behavior in order to insure its continued existence might also negatively impact others.

[drob518]

Externalities are a thing, but this isn’t exactly dumping toxic waste into a river.

[trinsic2]

I disagree with that. from what I read data centers are going to have some real world negative effects on human populations

[zephen]

No, it's more just drying the river up entirely.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/texas-data-center-wa...