Original comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1uyyywv/comment/oy3cgd7/
Trees vs. Data Centers
Photo 1: Memphis, TN (top)
Photo 2: Sandston, VA
Photo 3: Abilene, Texas
Photo 4: New Albany, OH
Photo 5: Fayetteville, GA
Not to be that guy but you can easily find something a thousand times worse with suburbia than some measly data centers.
Those things eat up land at a much larger scale than anything else aside from farming or logging.
Regardless of any similarities, are you actually comparing places where human beings live with empty buildings that eat unlimited power and water and terrorize the communities they infiltrate?
The “not to be that guy” people have never once come in good faith.
You could literally do this with anything since the Roman empire