[Cthulhu_]

Call me a shill but I don't need foreign nations telling me what to object to when the problems caused are obvious.

Mind you, I blame governmental mismanagement of infrastructure etc just as much. The datacenters followed procedures when it comes to getting land, electricity and access to water; it's the government agencies / personnel that okayed it that are (also) to blame, and the decades of not enough investment in electricity backbone while promoting solar/EVs that is behind the Netherlands' current electrical grid problems.

(problems being that the grid is at capacity, causing a stop on new connections, with relief only slowly coming in the next decade or so with tens of billions of investments).

[sigmoid10]

You could say the same about electrification of road traffic. Yes, governments slept on the electric power requirements. Yes, there are other, still unsolved issues. But that doesn't mean that electric cars are bad or not the future. The first nation to fully get rid of fossils in transportation will have a monumental advantage and dominate other countries technologically and economically. Same goes for AI. And right now China is setting itself up to be the world leader in both fields.