[autoexec]

> How are they harming consumers?

Consumers like breathing (https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers-pollution) and drinking clean water (https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/data-center-accused-m...). The noise is loud enough to cause hearing damage, and the smell and light pollution isn't helping consumers either.

[fintechjock]

Those are residents, not consumers across the US

[autoexec]

Consumers across the US are the residents. They're the same people. Especially when it comes to those living around data centers. The CEOs of amazon, google, and microsoft aren't living next to data centers and being subjected to the worst of the harms those data centers cause. The people who live near data centers are the consumers of those companies (while also being the products those companies sell). The consumers buying RAM and GPUs are the same people suffering from the pollution data centers cause and paying the price for the environmental harms. We are the consumers. You, me, and our families.

[kube-system]

Residents of homes are typically consumers of utilities, and consumer utility rates are going up in areas of high energy demand.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/confronting-and-addressin...