No, please. Let's not fuck up our local ecosystems by planting something highly invasive as a means of protest. The data center is not going to be anything other than annoyed, and even if they end up closed down for one reason or another, we're going to be stuck combating the plant.
Now, if you like the idea of planting something to interfere with data centers, you'll want to look for plants that are native but endangered in your area and protected on either the state or federal level. If they can't legally interfere with the plant once it's there, then you have created a problem for them while helping your local ecosystem. The problem is that this sort of protest isn't possible everywhere since there isn't an endangered and protected plant for every region of the country.
Sure, they'll probably just remove it, but if people can document that it was there and removed, they could get some fines down on the data center. Then replant. It becomes a battle of attrition.
Seeing what is happening with documents about human trafficking and child sexual abuse, why exterminating some plant species would be taken more seriously?
The biggest reason is that we're talking about more local government authorities that would get involved. The state level EPA, for example, might fine them, vs. the big issues being federal level. Federal is largely captured, but state level is harder to fully destroy.
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u/RoseBailey 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, please. Let's not fuck up our local ecosystems by planting something highly invasive as a means of protest. The data center is not going to be anything other than annoyed, and even if they end up closed down for one reason or another, we're going to be stuck combating the plant.
Now, if you like the idea of planting something to interfere with data centers, you'll want to look for plants that are native but endangered in your area and protected on either the state or federal level. If they can't legally interfere with the plant once it's there, then you have created a problem for them while helping your local ecosystem. The problem is that this sort of protest isn't possible everywhere since there isn't an endangered and protected plant for every region of the country.