Sherrod Brown Runs Pac-Man Ad Targeting Data Center Energy Costs
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This is funny given our country's history w trying to ban arcades in order to crack down on Pac Man in the 80s. Cities across America prohibited new arcades, limited how many machines businesses could have, banned arcades near schools & parks bc of the alleged harm of Pac Man
Sherrod Brown is running a Pac-Man themed ad about data centers in #OHSen: "Ohio's electric grid. Big corporations treat it like a game, gobbling up energy to feed their data centers. ... I'll require the data centers pay the full cost of their electricity, not you."
Data centers are different from video games, of course, but some might argue a lot of the panic around them as a concept often bleeds into moral panic based on misinformation, similar to what we saw with Pac Man :) https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/video-game-arcade-hysteria-san-francisco-20054357.php