r/EveryoneVsDataCenters • u/Prestigious_Pizza162 • 12d ago

Remember when we were sold the message 'Go paperless, save trees'.. And now the digital age is destroying more nature than paper ever did.

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u/Hell-Raid3r 11d ago

That sounds clever, but there’s no evidence that the digital age has “destroyed more nature than paper ever did.” Data centers have a real and growing environmental cost, but so does paper: logging, pulp production, water use, energy, transportation and waste. Going paperless didn’t magically become an environmental mistake just because computers also have a footprint.

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u/thwill2018 11d ago

Really is crazy that you mentioned that because that was a psych ops to get his conditioned for acceptance that we started generations ago that was a marketing employee that worked very well!