We’re in the middle of the next technological revolution and not building is our best bet? You could’ve said that about the green revolution we should have left the fertilizer in the ground cause now we have 10 billion people and all the problems that come with it.
So what, if we don't invent the technology tomorrow we will next year. It's not like the world stops turning if innovation slows down a bit. In fact a lot of people think it's going too fast now. Even a lot of people in the industry.
And we shouldn't have made so unsustainably many people, I really don't understand why people are still fussing about birth rates when environmental crises are piling up (and social ones too like cost of living/housing)
I know this is like 2 hops off topic now, but... There's no shortage of people worldwide, it's just that particular countries have issues with low birth rates.
On topic, yes the datacenter growth can be slower.
In my opinion the jury is still out on the green revolution. Yes it allowed us to produce more tonnage per acre and produce crops in regions that previously couldn't, but it did so at the expense of drastically increase the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, larger and heavier equipment, etc.
Among other things, that system is adding a lot of salt to those fields and polluting our water with all the runoff.
Did it allow us to feed more people and grow the population? Yes, no question. But is that going to prove to be sustainable long term? We'll see what happens if and when those inputs are no longer available at scale.
How is that a helpful comment? Doy out have any arguments that might help convince me that the green revolution has in fact proven out to be worth the externalities?
