[bradleyjg]

I don’t really know how to rephrase it. It’s a distraction.

This article could have been about shipping alfalfa to the Middle East and Asia, but instead it was about this.

[bix6]

That’s not a distraction. It’s one of the many ways in which data centers are problematic. Why shouldn’t it be talked about as such?

[senordevnyc]

Because it's not really problematic, in the same way that the pollution from campfires isn't a problem. Sure, there's some theoretical pollution from that, but there's about a billion things on the list above it, and you clearly don't give two shits about any of those. You're on a crusade against campfires, not actually interested in pollution, and thus you can be safely ignored.