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It's hardly "changing the subject" to try and establish whether this is actually a proportional effort. Your concern should, in fact, be relative to the harm something does. A single car killing one person is not a reason to demand the abolishment of the automotive industry. If you care about saving the environment, you could do vastly more by protesting a dozen different causes. You can't give any reason this cause…
> It's hardly "changing the subject" to try and establish whether this is actually a proportional effort. No, that's basically the definition of whataboutism. We are talking about the problems with datacenters. You are trying to claim that we shouldn't be concerned with the problems of datacenters if we aren't at least equally concerned with the problems of X, Y, and Z other things. There is no world in which that's…
What possible counter-argument can you offer to that?