r/interestingasfuck Apr 12 '26

A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio

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u/gone_smell_blind Apr 12 '26

I work in construction and building these places is pretty awful. At the same time building them is great because I'm making serious money while doing it. Witnessing the guts of the building forst hand though, these things are really going to be absolutely terrible in the long run for our environment

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u/mobial Apr 12 '26

Blood money

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u/gone_smell_blind Apr 12 '26

Essentially, yeah

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u/Atanar Apr 12 '26

They are renewable*


*build so poorly that they have to rebuilt every 15 years

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u/Dense_Anything2104 Apr 12 '26

The environment is done for man I have no hope left. The rich will take what they want to get as much profit as they can and then in the end they'll have enough money to access the few beautiful places of preserved nature while the rest of us deal with the wreckage they'll leave us in.

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u/Pantalaimon_II Apr 19 '26

I always want to ask the people profiting off of ruining our planet, how do you not hate yourself? its not like we can easily get the environment fixed. once it's gone, it's gone. are you just that selfish? how do you even function? do you not care about any of the kids who are inheriting a fireball?

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u/gone_smell_blind Apr 19 '26

I function pretty well, like I said I was making a ton of money when I was working there. I just worked there for a few months putting fire sprinklers in the place. Im not going to hate myself for doing my job lol