[protocolture]

>Pricing that doesn't account for externalities.

Water and power are priced by third parties, if they aren't passing some cost on to datacenters thats not the fault of datacenters.

>Those who bear the consequences are not those who reap the benefits

Super broad statement that cannot be meaningfully tested. Your power goes up, but your ISP has more and better peers, your emergency services have redundant vxc's between redundant sites, your steam games are cached more locally, your data is hosted in country rather than overseas and hundreds of other little benefits. A lot of which would cause greater whinging if they suddenly evaporated.

[mrtksn]

It's not important whose fault it is, I am sure that the datacenter people believe that they got such a good deal and everything is peachy.

[protocolture]

It does matter. Screeching about datacenters when you cant get your polity to price energy correctly is not an issue with datacenters.

[mrtksn]

It’s not important who’s fault it is, it’s probably the politicians who were looking for short term gain that they can present as creating jobs or maybe even taking bribes to issue permits. It’s not that important who’s personally to blame.

[protocolture]

Politicians wouldnt make more or less jobs by pricing power correctly.

If there was suddenly a bunch of people angry at plumbing because pipes had become expensive, and I found myself having to defend the dual benefits of fresh water and sewerage removal, I would likewise try and identify the root cause of pipes being expensive before crazed internet commentators tried to rip up important infrastructure.