<i>>Schaap is the administrator of Stichting DataTruc Zeewolde, a Facebook group of residents opposed to the data center in their village.</i><p><i>>“To give 166 hectares of fertile land to metal boxes is beyond our imagination.”
“It’s not like it’s a data center where they store all this data for maybe payments, hospital applications, or, you know, medical things,” Schaap said. “They have all this information stored from people, which they sell to advertisers.”</i><p>I honestly think it's kind of admirable that someone who sees the scarcity and how precious land is makes that very same connection about how we use our data. And of course some people will mock that he voices the criticism on Facebook itself, but to me it just goes to show how far that company (and others) have more or less automatically invaded every aspect of infrastructure.