Many users criticized New York's data center ban as hypocritical and economically shortsighted next to its support for Micron chip fabs, while others praised criticism of the policy as blocking innovation.
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@danprimack Data centers are much worse!! Unlike Fabs data centers use water for cooling releasing clean(er) after but Fabs use water and combine it with all sorts of toxic materials and then release the clean water.
9:20 AM · Jul 16, 2026@danprimack One creates a lot of jobs (at least for now), the other does not (Moratorium still v dumb)
8:39 AM · Jul 16, 2026@senatorshoshana slopulism is my new favorite word. thank you. ❤️
8:11 AM · Jul 16, 2026@danprimack False equivalence. Think for one second I beg you.
8:35 AM · Jul 16, 2026@chellivia It's so sad!!
3:52 PM · Jul 15, 2026New York confuses me. It hypes up a massive chip fab project from Micron -- which will make products that go into data centers. Then it bans data centers. If data centers are bad, then wouldn't that also apply to making chips for data centers?
8:17 AM · Jul 16, 2026"banned" vs "moratorium"... yes, there is a distinction and i should have been more exact
8:53 AM · Jul 16, 2026@chellivia It's so sad!!
3:52 PM · Jul 15, 2026New York confuses me. It hypes up a massive chip fab project from Micron -- which will make products that go into data centers. Then it bans data centers. If data centers are bad, then wouldn't that also apply to making chips for data centers?
8:17 AM · Jul 16, 2026"banned" vs "moratorium"... yes, there is a distinction and i should have been more exact
8:53 AM · Jul 16, 2026Many users criticized New York's data center ban as hypocritical and economically shortsighted next to its support for Micron chip fabs, while others praised criticism of the policy as blocking innovation.
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