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.
Water: huge usage and/or pollution (reusing).
Electricity: huge usage and/or pollution (generators running on methane or other fossil fuels), ignore promises of nuclear reactors.
Both are “competitors” on usage; by market effects, this means higher prices for everyone else, which will remain permanently increasing unless the water reservoir and processing plants increase in capacity (same for electricity.)
Smaller distance: noise pollution, including noise that is difficult to detect, but still messes you up. As humans can’t turn off their hearing, living like this is, basically, torture of various intensity.
Jobs: almost entirely short-term temporary, as with many construction projects. Think of data-centers as housing construction for software. (Yes, it is a software housing bubble.)