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Data center land use issues are fake

Andy Masley · 2 May 2026 · blog.andymasley.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Data centres mostly take farmland, of which America has too much, rather than housing land, of which it has too little.

    Their wordsThis post is about whether data centers waste the land they’re on relative to what they compete with, and my claim is that they mostly don’t compete with things we need more of (housing) and mostly compete with things we need less of (farmland).
    Interesting