@thomasfricke @Profpatsch @xezpeleta @simon as a practical showcase: Google is building six ~150MW hyperscale datacenters in my neighbouring city. In Norway we have a lot of hydropower, but it is far from enough to feed the servers due to limitations in capacity in the grid.
To feed the servers, hundreds of new mega windmils are planed to be built in pristine nature in our mountains, and many big solar parks are planed along the south cost of Norway.
Just to cover the extreme energy needs of Googles datacenters.
We get nothing back as a community. No real jobs. Just higher energy prices.
And on top of it all, Google does pay practicaly no taxes.
It is a scam and our local politicians have been tricked.
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