I may try to be brave and actually attend these. But I need real reasons (not just “the expansion of mass surveillance tools like this erode democracy and push us into fascism. Destroy all billionaires”)
The water usage thing is basically debunked. The people dont care what data they are actually storing. All I really would have is, land use, noise, and power consumption. Maybe about how theyre recording you at every turn with flock? Which any factory being built would do the same. I just feel like I can’t actually make an argument in front of normie’s who dont really realize what’s at stake here and have zero clue about technology in general.
It’s basically a gasoline powered power plant. They claim to use the gas generators as a “backup” but apparently backup means a good fraction of the time. It costs millions, generates only a couple jobs during construction, and that’s it. There’s no value to the community. It’s a power plant that sucks energy off the grid, raises electricity prices. The end.
They also tend to get tax breaks for a decades or more to entice them to build in places, which makes no sense as that means they aren’t providing any benefit at all since there are no jobs once it is completed. They are a net negative financially on top of the pollution and noise and everything else wrong with them.