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OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

120 golf courses is a fuckload of wasted water. That isn't as persuasive as you seem to think it is.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I agree about golf courses being a bad metaphor but only because they feed into the same issue. They're something people see and comprehend but which completely fails to capture the scope. It only seems like a bad metaphor if you don't have any context and most people don't.

    I'm not doing it to be convincing, but your reaction feeds into my point. It's back to the Hank Green point. To the ley audience it seems like a lot because "number big", but it's utterly meaningless amount, if you have just look at like "one small suburbs worth of front yard".

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