cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74351191

A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta could generate dozens of atomic bombs worth of heat every day.

  • etc@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    It costs money to do it, so you would have to legislate and enforce those requirements. A companies’ leadership will never spend money on public good unless they are told they have to, so regulation is the only way to make it happen.

    It’s just like O&G industry. Norway and Denmark taxes and regulates the crap out of it, North America doesn’t because “capitalism rules” (or is that corruption?).